The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . Possessing these advantages, Corinth became aplace of very extensive It was also distinguished lor itssumptuous public edifices, and for the cultivation of the elegant arts, aSee Conybeare and Howsons Life and Epistles of Paul, i. 261. h On the maintenance of spiritual liberty, against those who taughtthat ritual observance was essential to salvation, and those who taughtthat will worship was acceptable obedience, see iii. 5, 6: Rom. : Col. ii. 16-23. i Count de Lesseps, the builder of the Suez canal, in
The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . Possessing these advantages, Corinth became aplace of very extensive It was also distinguished lor itssumptuous public edifices, and for the cultivation of the elegant arts, aSee Conybeare and Howsons Life and Epistles of Paul, i. 261. h On the maintenance of spiritual liberty, against those who taughtthat ritual observance was essential to salvation, and those who taughtthat will worship was acceptable obedience, see iii. 5, 6: Rom. : Col. ii. 16-23. i Count de Lesseps, the builder of the Suez canal, in 1882 projected the cutting of acanal through the isthmus of Corinth ; an enterprise which, if succesfully consum-mated, may restore the ancient city to commercial importance. PRESENT VIEW OF CORINTH, GREECE. (Page 658.)The present town, of 2,500 inhabitants, was destroyed by an earthquake in 1858—thelast despoil 3r of a long line of Greek, Roman, Goth, Turkish, and Venetian conquerorswho have in turn ravaged the ancient capital. Paul labored here upwards of a CiESAREA, PALESTINE, AS AT PRESENT (Pages 186, 304.)Though now a ruined and deserted town, Caesarea was in the time of Christ thecapital of the district and the residence of a pro-consul. Ruins of a castle, aque-ducts, and extensive walls, with wide-spread remains of public and private buildings,prove its former consequence. B. C. 22, the town was named by Herod the Great,u Caesarea, in honor of Augustus. (Acts xii., xxiv., and xxv.)73* FIRST EPISTLE TO CORINTHIANS. 659 and of polite learning. The Isthmian games, also (probably alludedto in chap. ix. 24-27), which were held near the city, had attained greatcelebrity, and attracted a vast concourse of strangers from all these causes, Corinth became remarkable for wealth and luxury;and equally so for profligacy and licentiousness, which were greatlyfostered by the worship of Venus established there; so that it becameultimately the most corrupt and effemin
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