Strabo, Geographia, 8.361, 381.
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.
