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Greece
Pilgrimage - Corinth |
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Day 11: Corinth Visited Corinth where St Paul ministered for two years and established a Christian community. Saw the Agora dominated by the columns of the Temple of Apollo and the Bema where Paul was accused. Stopped at the Corinth Canal. Visited Mycende, the theatre of Epidauros and Askepieton and Conchreae where one of the sights, the ruins of the ancient Greek church, can be seen at low tide. Acts 18:1-17 speaks of Paul’s first visit (AD 50-51). He wrote his “First Letter to the Corinthians” (AD 55) from Ephesus, and then revisited Corinth briefly (his “painful visit” - 2 Corinthians 2:1). He then wrote his “Second Letter to the Corinthians” and subsequently visited Corinth for three months in the winter of AD 57-58. Paul clearly wrote more than two letters to the Corinthians, and it may well be that 2 Corinthians is a compilation of these letters. Paul’s relationship with the church in Corinth is extremely fascinating: it demonstrates his great love for them, his frustration, his pain and his unalloyed joy. 2 Corinthians is his most vulnerable letter, and speaks much of the suffering he experienced. |
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