Corinth

Corinth in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Famed for its commerce, chiefly due to its situation between the Ionian and AEgean seas, on the isthmus connecting the Peloponnese with Greece. In Paul's time it was capital of Achaia, and seat of the Roman proconsul (Acts 18:12). Its people had the Greek love of philosophical subtleties. The immorality was notorious even in the pagan world; s...

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Corinth in Hitchcock's Bible Names

which is satisfied; ornament; beauty...

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