In 146 BC, the Romans destroyed Corinth.[] But in 46 BC, Julius Caesar rebuilt the city and filled it with retired war veterans and freedmen.[] The Romans rehabilitated the city after the pattern of a typical Roman city. It was during this period that “Corinth became the capital of the Roman province of Achaia (cf. Acts 18:1, 2), which included all the Peloponnesus and most of the rest of Greece and Macedonia.”[]
Strabo, Geographia, 8.361, 381.
Strabo, Geographia, 8.381; Pausanias, Descriptio Graecae, 2.1.2; Dio C., Historia Romae. 43.50. Cited in Hans Conzelmann, 1 Corinthians: A Commentary on the First Epistle to the Corinthians, Hermeneia—a Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1975), 11.
W. Harold Mare, 1 Corinthians: The Expositor’s Bible Commentary: Romans through Galatians (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1976), 176.
James is an elder at Dwell Community Church, where he teaches classes in theology, apologetics, and weekly Bible studies.
