. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . rinth,destroyed by the Romans 146 b. c, with which wehave to do in the life of St. Paul, but the Corinthwhich was rebuilt and established as a Roman col-ony, about one hundred years afterward, by JuliusCesar. The distinction between the two must becarefully remembered. The new city was hardly 188 COR COR less distinguished than the old, and it acquired afresh importance as the metropolis of the Romanprovince of Achaia. Corinth was a place of greatmental activity, as well as of commercial and manu-facturing enterprise. Its wealth was so celebratedas t
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . rinth,destroyed by the Romans 146 b. c, with which wehave to do in the life of St. Paul, but the Corinthwhich was rebuilt and established as a Roman col-ony, about one hundred years afterward, by JuliusCesar. The distinction between the two must becarefully remembered. The new city was hardly 188 COR COR less distinguished than the old, and it acquired afresh importance as the metropolis of the Romanprovince of Achaia. Corinth was a place of greatmental activity, as well as of commercial and manu-facturing enterprise. Its wealth was so celebratedas to be proverbial; so were the vice and profligacyof its inhabitants. The worship of Venus here was attended with shameful licentiousness. All thesepoints are indirectly illustrated by passages in thetwo epistles to the Corinthians. Corinth is stillan episcopal see. The city has now shrunk to awretched village, on the old site, and bearing theold name, which, however, is often corrupted intoGortho. Pausanias, in describing the antiquities of. Corinth as they existed in his day, distinguishesclearly between those which belonged to the oldGreek city, and those which were of Roman relics of Roman work are still to be seen, onea heap of brick-work which may have been part ofthe baths erected by Hadrian, the other the remainsof an amphitheatre with subterranean arrangementsfor gladiators. Far more interesting are the ruins,on the W. side of the modern town, of the ancientGreek temple, probably the oldest of which any. re-mains are left in Greece. The Posidonium, or sanc-tuary of Neptune, the scene of the Isthmian games,from which St. Paul borrows some of his most strik-ing imagery in 1 Corinthians and other epistles, wasa short distance N. E. of Corinth, at the narrowestpart of the Isthmus, near the harbor of Schcenus(now Kalamdki) on the Saronic gulf. The exactsite of the temple is doubtful; but to the S. are theremains of the stadium, where the foot-races wererun (1 Cor.
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