Word: corinth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreigners, a man and his wife, traveled out of ancient Corinth one day last month along the twisting roads that lead toward the rugged interior of the Peloponnesian peninsula. In a tranquil mountain valley, they came to the village of Kalavryta. When the villagers learned that the visitors were Germans, there were sullen mutterings in the village square. A white-haired woman in widow's weeds glared at the man. "He is one of them," she said. "He must...
When St. Paul told the Christians of Corinth that "the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life,"* he was using inspiring language. But, as his successors soon found out, without the letter of Christianity, which includes church doctrine as well as Holy Writ, the spirit would have a hard time getting itself heard and handed down. It is a fact, however, that letter and spirit, despite the best intentions, often get in each other's way. So they did last week in Chapel Hill...
...days, gowned and bearded Orthodox priests and black-coated visiting clergymen toured points of Pauline interest. Among them: Philippi (where he preached his first sermon in Europe), Salonika (where he established his first church in Europe), Corinth (where his First and Second Epistles to the Thessalonians and the Epistle to the Romans were written). The pilgrimage was under the sponsorship of the Greek Orthodox Church and the government, but Roman Catholic priests from France and Belgium were there...
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...Consul Lucius Mummius visited Corinth-with a Roman army. The legionaries looted the famous nightclub; they tossed the tables, dice, ivory flutes and drinking cups down the 33 wells (where Professor Broneer found them more than 2,000 years later). But the riotous spirit of Corinth survived. In 60 A.D., St. Paul reproved his little flock at Corinth (II Corinthians 12:20, 21): "For I fear," wrote St. Paul wearily, "lest, when I come . . . I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed...