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Study Section 16: Study the Bible for Knowledge – continued

16.1 Connect.

To really understand the Bible, sometimes you have to mentally put yourself back into the
time when the Scriptures were being written. You have to have a vivid imagination.
Learning the culture, geography, history, and language of the time period adds so very much
to your understanding of what you are reading. Today, in this final lesson, we want to give
you another taste of what it means to study the Bible for knowledge. We will help you
understand the culture, geography, history and language in this lesson and you will see how
much more you will comprehend about the three verses you are going to study today. Let’s get
started….

16.2 Objectives.

1. The student should be able to discuss how to do some background research in order to
study the Bible for knowledge.

2. The student should be able to apply the lesson by conducting a knowledge study.

1.3 Study the Bible for Knowledge - continued

Let’s try this…. Acts 18: 1-3

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After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. There he
met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had
recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because
Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to see them,
3 and because he was a tentmaker as they were, he stayed and worked
with them.

Here is some background research.

Without explaining the circumstances Luke simply stated, After this, Paul left Athens and went to
Corinth. The cities of Athens and Corinth, though only 50 miles apart, were quite different. Athens was
noted for its culture and learning, Corinth for its commerce and reckless extravagance and licentious
behavior. Corinth was located just south of a narrow isthmus which joined the peninsula called
Peloponnesus to Achaia to the north. Land trade moving north and south went through Corinth as did
sea trade going east and west. Corinth possessed two seaport cities—Lechaeum two miles to the west
on the Gulf of Corinth which opened to the Adriatic Sea, and Cenchrea, seven miles to the southeast
which brought trade from the Aegean Sea. The southern tip of the Peloponnesus Peninsula was
dangerous for ocean travel, so ships would put into port at one of Corinth’s seaports and have their
cargoes carried across to the other side of the isthmus for shipping there.

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