What was Corinth's economy like?
Corinth's economy was marked by great activity of commerce and trade. The city was a commercial hub, yet it was steeped in gross immorality, with temple prostitutes operating as goddesses as part of their religion. The temple prostitution was on a massive scale, reported as up to a thousand or ten thousand.
Les explains that Corinth was a city of great activity of commerce and trade, yet it was also given over to gross immorality. He notes that the temple on the hill to the Athenian goddesses had prostitutes operating as goddesses, with up to 1,000 or 10,000 of them—a humongous number for a city that size. This immoral practice was part and parcel of their religion. Into that very midst came one lone man, Paul, and Les marvels that Christianity ever survived.