for the Church, which is a living temple of the Spirit (Eph 2:20; 1 Pet 2:4). A small island in the Aegean Sea, first settled by the Mycenaeans in the mid-fifteenth century B.C. The island figured in the events of the Maccabean War (1 Macc 15:23) and was mentioned once in the New Testament at Acts 21:1: following Paul’s third missionary journey, the apostle journeyed from Miletus to Cos; there he spent the night before setting sail for Rhodes. See Sanhedrin; see also Jerusalem, Council