s were made. "Certain men clave unto
him and believed; among whom were Dionysius the
Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with
them" (Acts 17:34).

5. Corinth. (Acts 18:1-18) was the largest and most
important city in Greece. From Athens Paul came to
Corinth and remained over a year and a half. We have
a graphic picture of this church in the Epistles to the
Corinthians. (See Study 8.) Probably no better place
than this highway of all peoples could have been selected
in which to preach the gospel. No one knew better than
Paul how to select strategic places. A stream of travelers,
merchants, scholars, and sailors was constantly passing
through this great commercial city; what was preached
here would be carried to the ends of the earth. It was a
city of art and culture and yet a place where the vices of
the east and west met and held high carnival. Religion
itself was put to ignoble uses; a thousand priestesses
ministered to a base worship in the magnificent temple of
the goddess Aphrodite. Greek philosophy showed its
decay in endless discussions about words and the tendency
to set intellectual above moral distinctions. There was a
denial of the future life for the sake of unlimited
enjoyment in the present. Paul, when he came into the city,
found a lodging with Aquila and his wife Priscilla, and
wrought with them at the occupation of tent making.
When Silas and Timotheus joined him he openly testified
to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ. Crispus, the chief
ruler of the synagogue, was converted together with many
Corinthians. Paul was comforted at this time by a vision
of the Lord which bade him to speak and not to hold his
peace. After a year and a half of earnest preaching an
attempt was made by the Jews to drive Paul out of the
city by bringing accusations against him before the Roman
proconsul Gallio, but in this they were unsuccessful. Paul
tarried and worked here until it seemed best for him to
turn his steps homeward again to Antioch. The keynote
of his preaching in this city is given by him in his First
Epistle to the Corinthians where he says (2:2), "For I
determined not to know anything among you save Jesus
Christ and him crucified." If this gospel could win
converts in Corinth, it can win converts anywhere.

+The Return Voyage+ (Acts 18:18-22) was by way of
Ephesus where he entered into the synagogue and
reasoned with the Jews. Leaving Ephesus he sailed for
Caesarea whe