Lehre und Wehre St. Louis, Missouri — September 1898, Seite 280

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280 Vermischtes.

geleitet wird und sich insonderheit auch mit Ausgrabungen in Griechenland
und anderwärts beschäftigt, ist es wiederholt gelungen, interessante Ent—
deckungen und Funde zu machen. So entdeckte vor längerer Zeit Prof.
J. R. S. Sterrett die Lage Lystras und des dortigen Tempels, wo die
Leute dem Paulus und dem Barnabas opfern wollten, Apost. 14, 8. ff.
Und vor einigen Monaten hat der jetzige Director der Schule, Prof. R. B.
Richardson, bei seinen Ausgrabungen die Inschrift über der jüdischen Syna—
goge in Corinth gefunden, also des Platzes, von dem es in der Apostel⸗—
geschichte (18, 4.) heißt: „Und Paulus lehrete in der Schule auf alle
Sabbather und beredete beide, Juden und Griechen.“ Prof. Richardson
schreibt darüber von Corinth aus an den Independent“ folgenden Brief:
In our excavations at Corinth in the valley east of the temple we
have just found, at a depth of two meters below the surface, a
marble block about three feet and a half long with one of its broad
sides elaborately and peculiarly carved, showing aà row of somewhat
sunken dentils with a projecting band of molding below it as well
as above. This was, of course, the original face. On what was
once its upper side or edge was cut an inscription mutilated at both
ends in letters about two inches high, running thus: A1TLTIEB P.
Towards evening of the day of the discoveéry it dawned upon me
all at once that we had here all that was left of ονανορν ρgoαιοn,
and that this stone in all probability came from the very synagog
in which the Apostle Paul reasoned every Sabbath and persuaded
the Jews and the Greeks' (Acts 18, 4). It is not necessary to waste
words on the interest of this inscription. We have been complain-
ing 0f the dearth of the inscriptions at Corinth. But in case we
had found a hundreéd inscriptions it is doubtful whether we should
have had one, which would be more suggestive than this fragment,
wihich seems to bring us nearer to the great Apostle to the Gentiles
as he moved about in this great city until there grew up about him
2 body of followers of the Lord to whom hewas so tenderly attached
that he wrote them two immortal letters. Of course we have not
theé synagog itself. The block has wandereéd about. It probably
served its first term in some building of the old eity that was de-
stroyec by Mummius, and then came to baser (2) uses in the Jewish
synagog. Quite likely it lormed the linte! to the door; and since
its face with the claborate molding was not convenient for inserib-
ing, it was turned over on its side where the molding could still be
seen by looking up. A good field kor the inscription was found on
the narrow side. Perbhaps we may vet sind the synagog itself.
But the suggestiveness of the inscription is, perhaps, just as pleas-
ing without the local habitation. It is a sermon in stone.“

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