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[Note: <\/strong>This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1<\/strong> page.]<\/span><\/p>\n In the 1st century, Corinth was a cosmopolitan city of Greeks, Romans and Jews, numbering about 500,000, a large percentage of which were slaves. On the lower appendage of Greece and with three good harbors, it was a great trade center. Immorality invaded every sphere of life, including religion, as the temple of Aphrodite maintained over 1000 prostitutes. \u201cCorinth\u201d was synonymous with \u201ccorrupt\u201d even in that wicked era. The problems in the church revolved around one corrupting principal: carnality, failure to control the flesh.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able <\/strong>to bear it<\/em><\/strong>: nay, not even now are ye able;<\/strong> for ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk after the manner of men? <\/strong>(1 Cor. 3:1\u20133).<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n [Note:<\/strong> I wrote this article for and it was published in the August 5, 1976, edition of Granbury Gospel<\/em>, weekly bulletin of the Church of Christ, Granbury, Texas, of which I was editor.]<\/span><\/p>\n Attribution:<\/strong> From thescripturecache.com<\/em>; Dub McClish, owner and administrator.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Views: 7[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] In the 1st century, Corinth was a cosmopolitan city of Greeks, Romans and Jews, numbering about 500,000, a large percentage of which were slaves. On the lower appendage of Greece…<\/p>\n\n