CORINTHIAN ARCHITECTURE

See ARCHITECTURE. —Letters by St. Paul to Christians of Corinth, forming two books of New Testament. Clement of Rome makes mention (c. 95) of Epistle of Paul to CG.’s, and these books are quoted by various writers in II. cent. Modern ‘Dutch school’ questions authorship and uts forth theory, for which there seems ittle evidence, that it was written by miscellaneous writers in II. cent. General difficulty is felt in accepting II. Corinthians 614-71 and chapters 10-13 as part of original epistle, although written by St. Paul. Epistles are imortant as adding to biograpuy of St. ‘aul in Acts, for contemporary picture of early Church, and for doctrinal points. First Epistle was written, 5458, during St. Paul’s stay at Ephesus after he left Italian-Gk. city of Corinth, where he founded Christian Church in middle of I. cent.; it deals with advisability of celibacy, mixed marriages, lawfulne of eating meat offered to idols, status of women, and’ political position of Christians. Second Epistle was written a year later for building up Church after internal di ension s and preaching of ‘false prophets.’ Pseudo Epistle of C.’s to St. Paul and reply of apostle, not included in Bible canon, were recognized by Church of Syria in IV. cent., but discovered to be part of II. cent. compilatio n of Acts of St. Paul, seaport, Nicaragua, Central America; large export trade. CIUS, general in mythical period of Rom. history. The legend, probably invented to explain capture of Corioli, is recounted in Plutarch’s Lives and Shakespeare’s Coriolanus.