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Acts 18:1
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After this, he left Athens and went to Corinth,
After these things, Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth,
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And when Paul departed from Athens, he went to Corinth.
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After Athens, Paul went to Corinth. That is where he discovered Aquila, a Jew born in Pontus, and his wife, Priscilla. They had just arrived from Italy, part of the general expulsion of Jews from Rome ordered by Claudius. Paul moved in with them, and they worked together at their common trade of tentmaking. But every Sabbath he was at the meeting place, doing his best to convince both Jews and Greeks about Jesus.
Paul saddled up, left Athens, and headed for Corinth.
Contextual Overview
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
departed: Acts 17:32, Acts 17:33
Corinth: Acts 19:1, 1 Corinthians 1:2, 2 Corinthians 1:1, 2 Corinthians 1:23, 2 Timothy 4:20
Reciprocal: Matthew 10:11 - inquire Acts 17:15 - Athens Romans 15:19 - so that 1 Corinthians 2:1 - when 1 Corinthians 14:36 - came 2 Corinthians 11:7 - in 2 Corinthians 11:26 - journeyings 1 Thessalonians 1:7 - in 1 Thessalonians 3:6 - when
Cross-References
Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, To your descendants will I give this land; and Abram built there an altar to the LORD, for he had appeared to him.
AFTER these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram; I am your shield, and your reward is exceedingly great.
And when God was through talking with him, he went up from Abraham.
AND the LORD revealed himself to him by the oak of Mamre, as he was sitting at the door of the tent in the heat of the day;
And said, O LORD, if now I have found mercy in thy sight, do not pass away from thy servant;
And the LORD appeared to him, and said, Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land of which I shall tell you;
And Jacob said to Joseph, God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me,
AND Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, The LORD has not appeared to you.
That night the LORD appeared to Solomon in a vision and said to him, Ask what I shall give you.
He said, Men, brethren and our fathers, harken: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was still in Mes-opo- ta''mi-a before he came to dwell in Ha''ran.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
After these things,.... The Arabic version renders it, "after these words, or discourses"; after the apostle's disputation with the philosophers, and his sermon in the Areopagus, the effects of which are before related:
Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth; the metropolis of Achaia, or Peloponnesus. The city was formerly called Ephyra, from Ephyra p, the daughter of Oceanus, and had its name of Corinth from Corinthus, the son of Maratho, who repaired it when destroyed; or, as others say, from Corinthus the son of Pelops, others of Orestes, and others of Jupiter: though more probably it was so called from the multitudes of whores in this place, as if it was
κοραι ενθα, "corai entha, here are girls, or whores"; for in the temple of Venus there were no less than a thousand whores provided, to be prostituted to all comers thither; :-. It was situated between two great seas, the Aegean and Ionean; hence q Horace calls it Bimaris: it had a very strong tower, built on a high mount, called Acrocorinthus, from whence these two seas might be seen, and where was the fountain Pirene, sacred to the Muses: the city was about sixty furlongs, or seven miles and a half, from the shore r: it was a city that abounded in riches and luxury. Florus s calls it the head of Achaia, and the glory of Greece; and Cicero t, the light of all Greece: it was in time so much enlarged, and became so famous, that it was little inferior to Rome itself, on which account it grew proud and haughty; and using the Roman ambassadors with some degree of insolence, who were sent into Greece, on some certain occasion, first Metellus, and then Mummius, were sent against it, which latter took it, and burnt it; and the city then abounding with images and statues of gold, silver, and brass, were melted down together in the fire, and made what was afterwards called the Corinthian brass, which became so famous, and is often spoken of in history u: but Julius Caesar, moved with the commodious situation of the place, rebuilt it w, and it became a colony of the Romans, as Pliny x and Mela y both call it: and so it was at this time when the apostle was there. After this it came into the hands of the Venetians, from whom it was taken by Mahomet, the second son of Amurath, in the year 1458 z; but is now again in the hands of the Venetians; and that and the country about it are called the Morea. And as the Gospel was to be preached to the worst of sinners, among whom God's chosen ones lay, the apostle was directed to come hither; and it appears by the sequel, that God had much people here, even more than at Athens, among the wise and learned.
p Vellei Patercull Hist. Rom. l. 1. Pausanias, Corinthiaca, sive l. 2. p. 85. q Carmin. l. 1. Ode 7. r Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 4. c. 4. s Hist. Rom. l. 2. c. 16. t Pro Lege Manilia Orat. 13. p. 636. u Florus, ib. w Pausauias, Corinthiaca, sive l. 2. p. 85, 89. x Nat. Hist. l. 4. c. 4. y De Situ Orbis, l. 2. c. 10. z Petav. Rationar. Temp. par. 1. p. 476.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
After these things - After what occurred at Athens, as recorded in the previous chapter.
Came to Corinth - Corinth was the capital of Achaia, called anciently Ephyra, and was seated on the isthmus which divides the Peloponnesus from Attica. The city itself stood on a little island; it had two ports, Lecheeum on the west, and Cenchrea on the east. It was one of the most populous and wealthy cities of Greece, and at the same time one of the most luxurious, effeminate, ostentatious, and dissolute. Lasciviousness here was not only practiced and allowed, but was consecrated by the worship of Venus; and no small part of the wealth and splendor of the city arose from the offerings made by licentious passion in the very temples of this goddess. No city of ancient times was more profligate. It was the Paris of antiquity; the seat of splendor, and show, and corruption. Yet even here, notwithstanding all the disadvantages of splendor, gaiety, and dissoluteness, Paul entered on the work of rearing a church; and here he was eminently successful. The two epistles which he afterward wrote to this church show the extent of his success; and the well-known character and propensities of the people will account for the general drift of the admonitions and arguments in those epistles. Corinth was destroyed by the Romans 146 years before Christ; and during the conflagration several metals in a fused state, running together, produced the composition known as Corinthian brass. It was afterward restored by Julius Caesar, who planted in it a Roman colony. It soon regained its ancient splendor, and relapsed into its former dissipation and licentiousness. Paul arrived there in 52 or 53 ad.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER XVIII.
Paul, leaving Athens, comes to Corinth, meets with Aquila and
Priscilla, and labours with them at tent-making, 1-3.
He preaches, and proves that Jesus was the Christ, 4, 5.
The Jews oppose and blaspheme; and he purposes to go to the
Gentiles, 6.
Justus, Crispus, and several of the Corinthians believe, 7, 8.
Paul has a vision, by which he is greatly comforted, 9, 10.
He continues there a year and six months, 11.
Gallio being deputy of Achaia, the Jews make insurrection
against Paul, and bring him before the deputy, who dismisses
the cause; whereupon the Jews commit a variety of outrages,
12-17.
Paul sails to Syria, and from thence to Ephesus, where he
preaches, 18-20.
He leaves Ephesus-goes to Caesarea, visits Antioch, Galatia,
and Phrygia, 21-23.
Account of Apollos and his preaching, 24-28.
NOTES ON CHAP. XVIII.
Verse Acts 18:1. Paul departed from Athens — How long he stayed here, we cannot tell; it is probable it could not be less than three months; but, finding that the Gospel made little progress among the Athenians, he resolved to go to Corinth.
CORINTH was situated on the isthmus that connects Peloponnesus to Attica; and was the capital of all Achaia, or Peloponnesus. It was most advantageously situated for trade; for, by its two ports, the Lecheum and Cenchreae, it commanded the commerce both of the Ionian and AEgean Sea. It was destroyed by the Romans under Mummius, about one hundred and forty-six years before Christ, in their wars with Attica; but was rebuilt by Julius Caesar, and became one of the most considerable cities of Greece. Like other kingdoms and states, it has undergone a variety of revolutions: from the oppressive and destructive government of the Turks it has been lately restored to that of the Greeks; but it is greatly reduced, its whole population amounting only to between thirteen and fourteen thousand souls. It is about 46 miles east of Athens, and 342 S.W. of Constantinople. Its public buildings were very superb; and there the order called the Corinthian Order, in architecture, took its rise.
