Footnotes

1.

The fullest treatment of the scholarly background is to be found in Hans Conzelmann’s A Commentary on the First Epistle to the Corinthians, Fortress Press, Philadelphia, 1975. For the history of the words involved, the standard source is Liddell and Scott Lexicon in the Stuart-Jones and MacKenzie revision of 1940; virtually all of this material is taken in a condensed form from Stephanus’ Thesaurus in the 19th century Firmin-Didot edition.

Endnotes

1.

Revised Standard Version and New English Bible.

2.

William Barclay, The Letters to the Corinthians (Westminster Press: Philadelphia, 1956).

3.

M. T. Thrall, The 1st and 2nd Letters of Paul to the Corinthians (Cambridge University Press, 1965).

4.

Hans Conzelmann, A Commentary on the First Epistle to the Corinthians (Fortress Press: Philadelphia, 1975), p. 221.

5.

Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, revised and edited Sir Henry Stuart Jones and Roderick Mackenzie (Oxford University Press, 1940).

6.

Liddell and Scott.

7.

George Sarton, A History of Science, Vol. 2, p. 350.

8.

Vitruvius, De Architettura, ed. Valentin Rose (Teubner: Leipzig, 1899), 5, 5, 7–8.

9.

The inverted vases are supported on cunei “wedges,” not blocks. My colleague Professor R. Gould, Department of Physics, Middlebury College, has pointed out the possibility of fine-tuning Helmholz resonators by restriction at the mouth, and this makes the function of the elevating wedges clear.

10.

Vitruvius 5, 5, 8 ff.