ASIN: B00HGV8I9G
Publisher: Corbett's
Pages: 26
'Life and Letters of Paul Series—1 Corinthians
We are getting into the book of 1 Corinthians
this evening. I would like to comment by way
of background on 1 Corinthians, particularly
the background of the city of Corinth. Corinth
was a city in Greece. It was, really, the
commercial capital of Greece. It was a major
port and it had all the major problems of ports.
In some ways, it was the “New Orleans” of its
day, perhaps in more ways than one. Corinth, at
the time of the Apostle Paul, had a population of
about 400,000, just a little bit smaller than the
city of New Orleans. It was a very major world
city in that day. There were only three cities that
had a larger population than Corinth at the time
of Paul: the cities of Rome (Italy), Alexander
(Egypt) and Antioch (Syria). The population was
mainly Greek, but there were others there
because Corinth was a very ...
