OF THE

FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS.

BY

CHARLES HODGE, D.D.,

PROFESSOR IN THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, PRINCETON, N. J.

NEW YORK:

ROBERT CARTER & BROTHERS,

530 BROADWAY.

1860.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by

ROBERT CARTER & BROTHERS,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

JOHN F. TROW,

Printer, Stereotyper, and Electrotyper, 46, 48 & 50 Greene Street,

Between Grand & Broome, New York.

INTRODUCTION.

§1. CORINTH.

THE Grecian Peloponnesus is connected with the continent by an isthmus from four to six miles wide. On this isthmus stood the city of Corinth. A rocky eminence, called the Acrocorinthus, rises from the plain almost perpendicularly, to the height of two thousand feet above the level of the sea, and is sufficiently broad at the summit for a town of considerable size. From the top of this abrupt hill the eye reaches towards the east over the expanse of the Ægean sea, with its numerous islands; and westward, towards the Ionian sea, a prospect scarcely less inviting was presented. Looking towards the north, the eye rests on the mountains of Attica on the one hand, and north-eastern Greece on the other. The Acropolis of Athens was clearly visible at a distance of forty-five miles. As early as the days of Homer, Corinth was an important city. Its position made it, in a military point of view, the key of the Peloponnesus; and its command of a port on two seas, made it the centre of commerce between Asia and Europe. The supremacy enjoyed by one Grecian State after another, had at