{To Corinth} (eis Korinthon). Mummius had captured and
destroyed Corinth B.C. 146. It was restored by Julius Caesar B.C.
46 as a boom town and made a colony. It was now the capital of
the province of Achaia and the chief commercial city of Greece
with a cosmopolitan population. It was only fifty miles from
Athens. The summit of Acrocorinthus was 1,800 feet high and the
ports of Cenchreae and Lechaeum and the Isthmus across which
ships were hauled gave it command of the trade routes between
Asia and Rome. The temple of Aphrodite on the Acrocorinthus had a
thousand consecrated prostitutes and the very name to
Corinthianize meant immorality. Not the Parthenon with Athene
faced Paul in Corinth, but a worse situation. Naturally many Jews
were in such a mart of trade. Philippi, Thessalonica, Beroea,
Athens, all had brought anxiety to Paul. What could he expect in
licentious Corinth?