Cenchrea in Easton's Bible Dictionary
millet, the eastern harbour of Corinth, from which it was
distant about 9 miles east, and the outlet for its
trade with
the Asiatic shores of the Mediterranean. When Paul
returned from
his second missionary journey to Syria, he sailed from
this port
(Acts 18:18). In Rom. 16:1 he speaks as if there were
at the
time of his writing that epistle an organized church
there. The
western harbour of Corinth was Lechaeum, about a mile
and a half
from the city. It was the channel of its trade with
Italy and
the west.
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