Acts 18:1

δὲ after μετὰ omitted with אAB. Not represented in Vulg.

ὁ Παῦλος omitted with אBD. Not represented in Vulg.

1. μετὰ ταῦτα χωρισθεὶς … ἧλθεν, after these things he departed and came. The ὁ Παῦλος of Text. recept. is an insertion of some one who thought to make the reference clearer. The number of similar instances in this book is large.

εἰς Κόρινθον, to Corinth. As Athens was the seat of culture, so Corinth was the seat of commerce in the south of Greece. The city, at this time the political capital of Greece and the residence of the Roman pro-consul, stood on the isthmus which united the Peloponnesus to the mainland, and through it all land traffic between the peninsula and the rest of Greece must pass, while its two harbours, one on each side of the neck of land on which Corinth stood, made it the resort of seafaring traders both from east and west. Of Lechæum, the western port, on the Corinthian gulf, we have no mention in the New Testament, but Cenchreæ, the harbour on the Saronic gulf, by which communication with the East was kept up, is mentioned in Acts 18:18. The city was also made famous for its connexion with the Isthmian games, from which St Paul in his Epistles draws frequent illustrations when writing to the Corinthian Church. (See 1 Corinthians 9:24-27, &c.) For further particulars of the history of Corinth see Dict. of Bible, s.v.