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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
(ornament). Anciently Ephyra; capital of
Achaia
. Destroyed by
Rome
, B. C. 146. Rebuilt by
Julius
Caesar
, B. C. 46, as a Roman
colony
.
Paul
founded a
church
there (
Acts 18:1; 20:2-3
1
After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth; (Acts 18:1)
2
And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece,
3
And there abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia. (Acts 20:2‑3)
).
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Capital of
the
province of
Achaia
. The
city
visited by
Paul
was founded by
Julius
Cæsar
about
a century after the fall of a former Corinth on the same site. It was a
great
center of commercial traffic on the route from
Rome
to the
East
. It was
also
rich and very profligate. Paul on his first visit remained
there
eighteen
months
(A.D. 52-3), and from thence wrote the two
epistles
to the
Thessalonians
. A
church
was gathered out, to which Paul wrote two epistles. In A.D. 58 he again visited Corinth, staying
three
months (
Acts 20:2-3
2
And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece,
3
And there abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia. (Acts 20:2‑3)
), during which
time
he wrote the
Epistle
to the Romans. The Jews plotted against his
life
, and he left the city (
Acts 18:1,11
1
After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth; (Acts 18:1)
11
And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them. (Acts 18:11)
; Acts 19:
1 Cor. 1:2
2
Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours: (1 Corinthians 1:2)
;
2 Cor. 1:1,23
1
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia: (2 Corinthians 1:1)
23
Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth. (2 Corinthians 1:23)
;
2 Tim. 4:20
20
Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick. (2 Timothy 4:20)
). It is now a mean
village
, called
Gortho
,
with
only
relics here and there of its former greatness.
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Strong’s Dictionary of Greek Words:
Number:
2882
(
find all occurrences in KJV Bible
)
Greek:
Κόρινθος
Transliteration:
Korinthos
Phonic:
kor’-in-thos
Meaning:
of uncertain derivation; Corinthus, a city of Greece
KJV Usage:
Corinth
Jackson’s
Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names
:
satiated
Potts’
Bible Proper Names
:
Horn; top of a mountain; ornament:―a city of Greece, Acts 18:1. {Cornu; vertex montis}
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