Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Acts 18:1
Paul at Corinth
SUMMARY OF ACTS 18: Paul Leaves Athens for Corinth. Works with Aquila
and Priscilla. Preaches in the Synagogue. Departs to the Gentiles.
Many Hear, Believe, and Are Baptized. The Lord Encourages Paul in a
Vision. The Seizure of Paul by the Jews. Before the Judgment Seat of
Gallio. The Accusers Driven Away. Paul Sails to Ephesus, Antioch and
Jerusalem. Starts on His Third Missionary Tour. Apollos Taught by
Aquila and Priscilla, and Preaches in Corinth.
Came to Corinth. The distance between Athens and Corinth is
forty-five miles by sea. The Acropolis of one city can be plainly
discerned from the other. From the most remote times Corinth had been
an important commercial center. Situated on the narrow isthmus between
Greece proper and the Pelopennesus, it had harbors on both the Aegean
and Adriatic seas. The old city was destroyed by the Roman Consul
Mummius, but it was rebuilt by Julius Caesar, made a Roman "colony",
(see PNT "Ac 16:12"), and was, at the time of Paul's visit, a city
of great splendor. Of its morals one fact will speak; one temple, that
of Venus Pandemos, had a thousand courtesans attached.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Acts 18:1
1 Corinthians 1:12
1 Thessalonians 3:1
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