. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. 138.—Portrait of From Anachar Fig. 139.—The Tomb of Lais was, according to Pausanias,surmounted l)y a sphinx with her forepawB upon a design became common, and this engraving is takenfrom a sepulchral monument dug up in the Roman cemetc-ryat Colchester, and preserved in the Museum there. a little distance to the south rose majestically the Acrocorinthus, and on the summitof it stood the temple of Venus. By what a scene of iniquitj was the Apostle sur-rounded ! He who had mortified the flesh, and had even refrained from marriage,that he might
. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. 138.—Portrait of From Anachar Fig. 139.—The Tomb of Lais was, according to Pausanias,surmounted l)y a sphinx with her forepawB upon a design became common, and this engraving is takenfrom a sepulchral monument dug up in the Roman cemetc-ryat Colchester, and preserved in the Museum there. a little distance to the south rose majestically the Acrocorinthus, and on the summitof it stood the temple of Venus. By what a scene of iniquitj was the Apostle sur-rounded ! He who had mortified the flesh, and had even refrained from marriage,that he might be the unencumbered soldier of his Divine Master, was now within acity where lasciviousness held her obscenest revels. Sufiice it to say, that to thetemple of Venus were attached more than a thousand courtesans, who, under thecover of religious rites, pandered to the passions of citizens and foreigners. Suchwas the Augean stable which the Christian Hercules now addressed himself topurify. Paul arrived at Corinth early in Decembe
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