Summary: “St. Paul Arrives in Corinth” Leaving Athens, St. Paul made his way southwest to Corinth, the ultra-modern, cosmopolitan city straddling the isthmus linking the mainland of Greece to the Peloponnesian Peninsula. In 44 B.C. Julius Caesar rebuilt Corinth to be a major hub for maritime trade. Ships would sail from the Saronic Gulf on the eastern side of the isthmus, unload their cargo and passengers at the port of Cenchreae, transport passengers and cargo across the ingenious Diolkos (the prototype of a modern railroad), reload their passengers and cargo at the western port of Lechaeum, and sail onward through the Gulf of Corinth toward the western regions of the Roman Empire. Corinth was a dazzling, multicultural, multiethnic and polytheistic metropolis, one of St. Paul’s greatest missionary challenges. In this podcast, Dr. Creasy teaches live at Corinth!
