. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. bling. -^ Paul had been not long at Corinth when he met with Aquila, a Jew, a native of * Pausan. ii. 4, 7. Corinth is now so absolutea desolation, that even the sites of the ancientbuildings cannot be traced. The well-knownDoric columns are the only architectural remainsof the Ai30Stolic age which have survived. In18-51 I counted forty or fifty wretched houseswhich then constituted the modern village, andin the midst of them was an oi^en area which might pass for a market-place; but very diffe-rent from that in which Gallic took his seat. • Strabo, viii. 6
. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. bling. -^ Paul had been not long at Corinth when he met with Aquila, a Jew, a native of * Pausan. ii. 4, 7. Corinth is now so absolutea desolation, that even the sites of the ancientbuildings cannot be traced. The well-knownDoric columns are the only architectural remainsof the Ai30Stolic age which have survived. In18-51 I counted forty or fifty wretched houseswhich then constituted the modern village, andin the midst of them was an oi^en area which might pass for a market-place; but very diffe-rent from that in which Gallic took his seat. • Strabo, viii. 6, and .see sii. 3. See Fasti Sacri, p. 297, No. 1778; and seethe discussion of the time, c. viii. p. 72 of thesame work. ?-? 1 Cor. ii. 3. Chap. XII.] ST. PAUL AT CORIXril. [ 51] 273 Pontu8,= and a tentmaker like Paul himself. Aquila, with his wife Priscilla,-^ hadbeen previously settled at Rome, but circumstances, which we shall now refer to verybriefly, had obliged him and his countrymen to remove from the great HU-i/ III. JinplL at ttom \tuail and Uitll „ .UIilnsSince ihls i lew wa>. taken many of the columns h>\e fnllen Thistmiple is the oiil\ i^mnanl of ilie f. rraer mngniflcenccof Curintli. It IS singular ihat the Coriulhian order of architecture lakes its name from Corinth, and yei no specimen olthe style is to be fotmd there. The wealth and importance of Rome attracted to it a vast multitude of Jews, wholived chiefly in the quarter of the city called Trans-Tiberim, or Over-Tiber, wherethey had their proseuchae, or oratories,-* in which they held their solemn assemblies onthe Sabbaths and other festivals. They were also to be found dispersedly in otherquarters, as in the Campus Martins, the Insula Tiberis, the Suburra, and without the ^? QovTiKov T-w yevei. Acts x^^ii. 2. As therewas a Pontius Aqtiila in the time of Cicero(Epist. Fam. x. 33, Snot. CiES. 78), it has beenconjectured by some that Aquila may have beena freedman, named after th
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