Faith, hope, charity
Paul stayed a year and six months in Corinth, making tents and teaching. Later he wrote the Corinthians his chapter on charity.
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At Corinth Paul found Aquila and Priscilla, lately come from Italy because Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome, and because they were tentmakers too, he stayed and worked with them. When the synagogue opposed him, he taught next door in the house of Justus, and Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed with all his house.
In a vision by night the Lord told him, “Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace” (Acts 18:9), and he stayed a year and six months. Brought before the proconsul Gallio, he was set free when Gallio refused to judge a question of words and names and of their law. An inscription found at Delphi dates Gallio’s year in office to about AD 51, one of the surest dates in Paul’s life.
Corinth was a rich and worldly port on the isthmus between two seas, and Paul’s letters to its church deal with divisions, lawsuits and disorder at the Lord’s supper. Into them he set his hymn to charity: “Charity suffereth long, and is kind” (1 Corinthians 13:4). The stone platform where Paul stood before Gallio still stands in the old forum.
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
1 Corinthians 13:13, KJV
Where it happened
Corinth, Ancient Corinth, Greece.
The ruins of Corinth, by the isthmus between two seas.
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- The Book of Enoch, translated by R. H. Charles (1917), Project Gutenberg
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