. Daily Bible illustrations : being original readings for a year, on subjects from sacred history, biography, georgaphy, antiquities, and theology : Especially designed for the family circle. years and experience mighthave given more weight and authority, he knew that Timothywas faithful and true, and wise and able beyond his the epistle written to this church soon after, he says thatwhen he could no longer forbear, he had sent Timothy,our brother, and minister of God, and our fellow laborer inthe gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you con- CORINTH, 565 cerning your fa
. Daily Bible illustrations : being original readings for a year, on subjects from sacred history, biography, georgaphy, antiquities, and theology : Especially designed for the family circle. years and experience mighthave given more weight and authority, he knew that Timothywas faithful and true, and wise and able beyond his the epistle written to this church soon after, he says thatwhen he could no longer forbear, he had sent Timothy,our brother, and minister of God, and our fellow laborer inthe gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you con- CORINTH, 565 cerning your faith. It is from this epistle that we gain theknowledge of these circumstances, which Luke had passedover in the historical narrative. FIFTIETH WEEK—SATURDAY. CORINTH. ACTS XVIII. The scene of the apostles labors now changes to great and prosperous city was at this time the metropolisof Achaia—the name by which all Greece was distinguishedfrom Macedonia. It lay at a distance of forty miles fromAthens, at the southern extremity of the isthmus whichjoined the Peloponnesus to the mainland, upon an elevatedtable-land, at the foot,on the northern side, of the This was a mountain nearly half a mile in perpendicularheight, with an ascent of four miles to the top, where therewas a fortress surrounded by a wall. The commercial ad-vantages of this situation were incalculable; and the better 366 FIFTIETH WEEK—SATURDAY. to realize them, there was a port on each side of the isthmus,the eastern one (Cenchrea) being nearly nine miles, and theother (Lechseum) being a mile and a half from the city. Fromthis felicity of situation, Corinth had by this time recoveredmuch of its ancient prosperity, although it had lain in ruins ahundred years, until restored by Julius Csesar. The activityof commerce, the wealth which such activity produces, andthe luxury which abundant wealth engenders, were the maincharacteristics of Corinth. The luxuriousness was shown inthe orna
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