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Introduction
The City of Corinth
Paul's First Letter to the Corinthian
church is the second longest epistle, the longest being that to
the church at Rome. As we will see at greater length, the Corinthian
church lived in difficult a environment, especially from a moral
point of view. Corinth was a city in the province of Achaia, and
was a Roman colony. That is, those who were born in it were free
citizens of the Roman Empire. It was situated on the Corinthian
Isthmus at the junction of sea routes to the East and the West
and of land routes to the North and the South, and so had always
been an important city of Greece. Because it played a leading role
in a revolt against Rome it was decimated by the leader of the
Roman Army, L. Mummius Achaicus in 146 BC, and it was not until
100 years later that it was refounded by Julius Caesar who gave
it the status of a colony. In 27 BC it was made the seat of administration
of the Roman Province of Achaia.
See also 1
Corinthians by Rev. Deane Meatheringham
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