Come and study Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast,

The Whole Council of God.

Father Stephen is a former Protestant pastor and Bible teacher in the Reformed Church,

but now an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

We'll get started here in just a minute, and we won't be doing... Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

We'll get started here in just a minute, and we won't be doing catch-up, really.

We'll be doing introduction because we're starting St. Paul's first epistle to the Corinthians.

So just a minute, we'll talk a little bit about Corinth and about this epistle in particular

and a little bit about 2nd Corinthians so not too much because I'll want to blather on about that

when we actually get to 2nd Corinthians and I don't want you to be too bored when you have to

hear it all a second time you're all nodding because you agree. I know. So before I get into that, those, are there any leftover questions from Romans or anything else

before we dive in?

Okay.

So the city of Corinth is actually one of the most ancient and one of the most important in Greek history,

but that city is technically not the city that St. Paul visited and to which this epistle was written.

So the Corinth at its location is not on the location.

Well, yeah, well, no, it's in the same location, but I'll get into how that happened.

So, Corinth was one of the earliest city states in Greece.

If you look at a map of Greece, it sort of is at the juncture between sort of mainland

Greece and the Peloponnese.

And so this made it a central location such that when there were threats to Greece as a whole,

we're used to thinking of Greece as Greece.

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