Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE TIME OF ST. PAUl's FIRST ARRIVAL AT COBUfTH. We now propose to investigate some of the leading dates in the life of St. Paul, as 1. The year of the conversion ; 2. The time of his visit to Jerusalem, at the martyrdom of James, the brother of John, Acts xi. 30; 3. The date of his arrival at Corinth on the first occasion, Acts xviii. 1; 4. The time of his visit to Jerusalem, when he was arrested in the temple; and 5. The date of his release from imprisonment at Rome. This is the order in which the events followed each other, but it will be necessary in our discussion to commence with the third question, viz. What was the date of Paul's arrival at Corinth at his first visit ? as on the result of this will depend the year to which the conversion must be referred. When all our inquiries have been answered, the harmony of the whole will be the strongest argument in support of each particular part; but at present, as we cannot shew the probability of Paul's arrival at Corinth at a certain time by assuming any given date of his history anterior or subsequent, we must break ground by TIME OF ST. PAUL S FIRST ARRIVAL AT CORINTH. 95 an appeal to independent circumstances, peculiarly and exclusively applicable to the arrival itself. We have two notes of time in the account of Paul's visit to Corinth, which may furnish us with a clue to the period of its occurrence. First, when Paul reached Corinth, he found there Aquila, a Jew of Pontus, "just (irpocrcf)aT(Ds) corne from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Romep;" and Secondly, towards the end of Paul's sojourn at Corinth (which was a year and a halfq), Gallio was appointed proconsul of Achaia. 1. Expulsion from Rome was generally resorted to as a ...