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| Wealthy aristocratic Roman administrative officials chosen annually by a league of cities in the province of Asia. |
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| A blend of Jewish, Christian, and Greek ideas that was vigorously opposed as heresy. IT taught salvation through special knowledge and complicated series of divine emanations from the hidden "One", showing the secret path back to the divine Ground of Being. |
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| A major east-west commercial highway of the Roman world |
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| Transliteration of the Greek work meaning "servant". Meant an officer dedicated to service in the early church |
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| A Greek term referring to the ruler of a city |
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| Letters written by Paul to the leaders of two groups of churches: Timothy in Ephesus and Titus in Crete. |
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