Location, Location, Location

Today we have been to Corinth and the first stop was to visit Accrocorinth, the hill which looms above the ancient and the modern city, and from which you can get a good idea of how strategically located Corinth was and is.

At the time of Paul Corinth had two harbours, one facing east and the other west. There was a diolkos between the two, a path of smooth stones over which goods (and even small boats) could be carried, thus saving over 100 miles off a trip round the bottom of Greece.

Corinth was thus a natural place for settlement and trade. It had had this role since ancient times and even after it had been razed to the ground by the Romans in 146BC it was refounded by Julius Caesar in 44BC along Roman lines and very soon flourished again.

When the apostle Paul was looking for a strategic place to preach the gospel after his time in Athens, he could have chosen no better place than Corinth.