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related 10 The previous chapter Paal
Was how 90 bis second missionary tear
Leaving Aa,ioch a D 81 he bad gous
with silas a a companion, through
Cdicia. Lycbonia. and GalA,ia 10 TroAs,
wbeace be sailed to PhiliPpi. Having
visited 1bossAlonicA aad BeFoa. where
Be Jeff sias aud Timothy With tho
command that they follow him a. soon
a. possible. be himself seems to have
taken ship 70 Athens which. after so
ioufn ~ few days wiesler says
fourteen be left for Corin,b. where be
rsmained a year and half, or IRON ihe
latter part d A. D. 50 TO the beginning
d 4. y. SIS. Claudias Caesar was
Emperor II Rome.
Couhih was colony, q sort Of min
iatare Rome. IL was the capital Of
Aehaia. one Of The provinces into which
( Greece bad been divided IL was also
the resideSco Of the proconsul. II was
4 forty five miles from Athens, and with
fair wind the voyage by sea can be
made 10 from three TO Eve hours. Even
10 pAuls time the voyage would not
have occupied more than two days.
Situated on the isthmus which connects
Greece proper with the Morea or the
PeIoponnesus, il commanded the trade
Of two seas. aud was the military key
Of the country. Ii was anciently IA
nous for wealth, luxury, philosophy,
aud vice. having the reputation OF being
the most dissolute city in Greece. 1t
was at the head OF the Achgsu League.
Maltreating the Roman ambassadors,
it was utterly destroyed by the Consul
Mummius b, Gallo, the same year
with the destruction of Carthage. but
was rebuilt aud coionized b. G. 40, by
Julius Caesar, and by him rapidly
pushed forward into something Of its
former greatness. 1t was this new
city which Paul visited, and from which
be wroth the Epistles to the Thessa-
lonians and the Romans. AS OF old, {
was place of great mental and com
mercial activity, and was celebrated
for the wealth and the vice Of its in
habitants.
Pauls Companions in Labor: Aquila
and Priscilla, whom Paul met here,
were among his most valued helpers at
Ephesus Tvs. Is, 20; Cor. xvi (: l9)
and at Rome. Rom. xvi: 81 They
were natives of Pontus, a province on
the Black Sea, and one Of the prov.
inces whose inhabitants were repre-
scented in Jerusalem at Pentecost Acts
ii: ~. II Aquila and Priscilla we're
not Christians prior TO the apostles
arrival at Corinth, they soon became
Christians aud entered heartily into his
work The bond OF common trade
and common nationality brought
them together, while their common
, faith kept them together, Priscilla, F"
says Abbott, twas woman of marked
activity, being not only mentioned as
sharing 10 the hospitality Of the family,
but also in the theological instruction
Of Apollos. From the fact that she is
, always mentioned first it has been in
ferred that she was the more energetic
of the two" The chain of events by
which these persons were made &C
quainted is clearly providential. In
accordance with the demands of the
Rabbinic law Paul had been taught a
trade, and one peculiar TO his native
; province. That trade not only minis.
tered TO his necessities, but secured
his independence and gave him home
in most worthy family, and family
which had been sent on from Italy ia
order that he might be its guest. We
/, do not know by what decree the jews
, were excluded from Rome; perhaps
that mentioned by Seutonius and occa
! stoned by the misdeeds Of one Cbres
tus II did not remain long 10 force
a yet long enough to furnish Paul home
, in Corinth, and two OF the most con
sistent and efficient of bis future co
laborers, Apparently soon after hi
arrival at Corinth, Silas and Timotheui
Joined him in his work,
] The purpose of the visit to Corinth
r Not TO make tents. but TO reason in th,
!" synagogue every Sabbath.day. Pau
1 was not ashamed Of his trade. HI
Z gloried ia the independence it gav'
c him II Cor. tx: g I; Cor. ii y. Blu
. he regarded it simply as means TO al
, end His main business was TO prescl
Christ and him Cruci6ed" Il Cor. ii
q. He sought to reach both Jews an,
Greeks. The imperfect tense, "h'
abode, /" wrought. reasoned. show
|. how persistently he sought TO rcacl
them, not once or twice. but as a con
slant habit. The arrival o Silas an
Timotheus found him pressed i
spirit, or as a later and better reading
:, has il, pressed in the word. I. G, en-
crossed with his work. The meaning
Afford thinks, 10 this "He was anI
q H. II