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INTRODUCTION
1. The city of Corinth
The ancient city of Corinth lay upon the narrow isthmus connectingthe Peloponnesus with the Greek mainland. Situated about three and a half miles south-west of present-day Corinth, the ancient city was built on a trapezium-shaped terrace at the foot of a large rocky hill known as Acrocorinth. This hill rises to a height of 1,866 feet above sea-level and dominates the surrounding landscape.
The isthmus upon which Corinth was built separates the waters of the Gulf of Corinth in the north-west from those of the Saronic Gulf in the south-east. On the north-western side of the isthmus, bordering the Gulf of Corinth, was the port-city of Lechaeum,and on the south-eastern side, bordering the Saronic Gulf, lay the port of Cenchreae (the port used by Paul when travelling to or from Corinth by ship, cf. Acts 18:18). The
Easter: The promise of an eternal sunrise
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