The Apostle Paul left Athens and went to Corinth where he stayed for a year and a half.
Jews had fled Rome and many were in Corinth where Paul stayed with Aquila and his wife Priscilla. They and Paul were tentmakers and Paul worked with them and preached in the synagogue on the Sabbath. After opposition from some Jews, Paul preached in the home of a Gentile believer, Titius Justus. In Paul’s time, Corinth was a busy trading city.
In a public hearing, the Apostle Paul was accused by the city’s Jews that his preaching undermined Mosaic Law. Lucius Julius Gallio, the proconsul judged that Paul had not broken any Roman law and, therefore, Paul was allowed to continue his teachings (Acts 18:12-17).
Following Apostle Paul’s visit between 51 and 52 AD, ancient Corinth became the center of early Christianity in Greece.
In Paul’s letter to the Corinthians, he wrote a memorable passage about love (1 Corinthians 13). He ended that passage by writing, “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
Ancient Corinth has a long history being first inhabited around 5000 BC in the Neolithic period and becoming more densely populated from the 10th century BC There were wars that affected ancient Corinth (the Peloponnesian War, the Corinth War). The Romans destroyed Corinth in 146 BC and later built a new city there in 44 BC when Julius Caesar founded his colony at the site.
To aid in commerce and trading, there were several attempts to plan an opening to connect the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf to open a canal across the Isthmus of Corinth. An original concept to build the Canal was made by the tyrant Periander of Corinth; however, in the 7th BC Periander built the “Diolkos”, a special road (paved trackway), where ships were loaded onto special vehicles and through the dry land through Diolkos and the goods were transported by pack animals. The Corinth Canal was finally opened in 1893 AD.
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