Meaning of CORINTH

City on the canal that divides the isthmus of the same name, on the divide between the Peloponnese and Hellas.

It was the capital of the province of Achaia.

Paul visited the city founded by Julius Caesar a century after the fall of an earlier Corinth in the same locality.

It was a large commercial traffic center on the route from Rome to the East. It was also rich and very immoral, so much so that to designate the licentious way of living of its inhabitants, the term "corinthizing" was coined.

On his first visit Paul stayed there for eighteen months (52-53 AD), and from there he wrote the two epistles to the Thessalonians.

A church grew there, to which Paul wrote his two epistles to the Corinthians. He visited Corinth again in AD 58, staying there three months (Acts 20:2, 3), then writing the Epistle to the Romans.

The Jews hatched a plot against his life, and he then left the city (Acts 18:1, 11; 19:1; 1 Cor. 1:2; 2 Cor. 1:1, 23; 2 Tim. 4 :twenty).

In Paul's time it had 700,000 to 800,000 inhabitants, of which 400,000 were slaves.