PAUL AT CORINTH. Corinth (p. 832), the seat of the Roman proconsul, was to the Christian missionary as good a field as Athens was the opposite. A great seaport, it was much addicted to vice and luxury, and had a very mixed population, as the Corinthian epistles show us, of rich people and poor, of t... [ Continue Reading ]
GALLIO AND PAUL. Gallio's proconsulship is fixed by an inscription at Delphi which came to light in 1905; and gives an absolute date in Pauline chronology (p. 655). He had not been proconsul when Paul came to Corinth (Acts 18:12); his arrival in Achaia is found to have been after midsummer (A.D. 51)... [ Continue Reading ]
JOURNEY TO SYRIA. No special object, is stated; the facts are placed before us abruptly, and some are hard to understand. An apostle is by his office a traveller who does not give himself to any one church, and Paul had been the best part of two years at Corinth when he bade the brethren there farew... [ Continue Reading ]
APOLLOS AT EPHESUS. Apollos is well known to us from 1 Cor.; his name was adopted by one of the Corinthian parties as their standard (1 Corinthians 1:12 *). Here we learn more about him, that he was at Ephesus in Paul's absence, and that Aquila and Priscilla were of use to him as teachers. He is a c... [ Continue Reading ]