QUESTIONS ON LESSON XX 1. Describe Paul's first visit to Corinth. 2. Where did Paul go at the beginning of the third missionary journey? 3. What was the occasion for the writing of the Epistle to the Galatians? 4. What great principle is defended in the Epistle? What is the meaning of the death of Christ? What is the meaning of "justification by faith"? 5. Give an outline of the Epistle, showing the three great divisions. 6. Why does Paul give, in the first part of the Epistle, a review of certain facts in his life? LESSON XXI The Third Missionary Journey. The Epistles to the Corinthians and to the Romans Another Epistle, in addition to the Epistle to the Galatians, was written by Paul at Ephesus on the third missionary journey. This was the First Epistle to the Corinthians. The First Epistle to the Corinthians In I Corinthians, the details of congregational life are more fully discussed than in any other of the Epistles of Paul. Paul had received information about the Corinthian church partly through what was said by the "household of Chloe," who had come to Ephesus from Corinth, and partly by a letter which the Corinthian church had written. The information was not all of a favorable character. In Corinth, a Christian church was in deadly battle with paganism--paganism in thought and paganism in life. But that battle was fought to a victorious conclusion, through the guidance of an inspired apostle, and through the Holy Spirit of God in the hearts of believers. First Paul dealt in his letter with the parties in the Corinthian church. The Corinthian Christians were in the habit of saying, "I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ," I Cor. 1:12; they seem to have been more interested in the particular form in which the gospel message was delivered than in the message itself. Paul treated the subject in a grand and lofty way. The party spirit in Corinth was merely one manifestation of intellectual pride. In reply, the apostle directed his readers to the true wisdom. And if you would possess that wisdom, he said, give up your quarreling and give up your pride. Then there was gross sin to be dealt with, and a certain lordly indifference to moral purity. In reply, Paul pointed to the true moral implications of the gospel, and to the law of love which sometimes, as in Paul's own case, causes a Christian man to give up even privileges which might be his by right.