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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Corinth
Paul stayed eighteen months in this rich trading city on the isthmus, and the church he planted got two of his longest letters. He stood before the proconsul Gallio there, whose dated term helps fix Paul's timeline. An inscription found at Corinth names an Erastus who paid for a pavement, likely the city treasurer of Romans 16:23.
Paul stayed eighteen months in this rich trading city on the isthmus, and the church he planted got two of his longest letters. He stood before the proconsul Gallio there, whose dated term helps fix Paul's timeline. An inscription found at Corinth names an Erastus who paid for a pavement, likely the city treasurer of Romans 16:23.
Corinth was a major commercial city on the isthmus connecting the Peloponnese to mainland Greece, rebuilt by Rome after its earlier destruction, known in the ancient world for its wealth and loose morals. Paul spent eighteen months there founding the church that would receive two of his most substantial letters, and appeared before the Roman proconsul Gallio, whose recorded term of office helps anchor the chronology of Paul's ministry (Acts 18:1-17). A pavement inscription discovered at Corinth naming a civic official called Erastus who paid for it at his own expense is widely thought to refer to the same Erastus, the city treasurer, whom Paul mentions in Romans 16:23.
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- Acts 18:1
- Acts 19:1
- 1 Corinthians 1:2
- 2 Corinthians 1:1
- 2 Corinthians 1:23
- 2 Timothy 4:20
