Analogies Come to Life!

Corinth was host of the Isthmac Games (the most famous of this series of games was in Olympia). And the prizes won by the athletes was a only a wreath. The wreath was different for each city's games. For many years the Isthmac crown was a wreath made of celery!

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Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

1 Cor. 9:24-27

Corinth was also made wealthy for their production of fine pottery! Their pottery was exported throughout the known world!

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For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.

2 Cor. 4:6-7

This head is a very "clean" body part to have chosen... especially given the options that were available to be photographed. In Corinth, it was popular to have a VERY anatomically correct plaster replica of yourself be made and put together!

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For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single member, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.

The eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you," nor again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you." On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.

1 Cor. 12:14-26

Believe it or not, that black circle is a mirror! Corinth was also very famous throughout the known world for their brass. They used brass for mirrors and would polish it to get a reflection out of it. Even the most polished brass still doesn't cast the greatest reflection... we might describe our reflection in such a mirror as "dim."
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For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1 Cor. 13:12-13

Pretty cool, eh?!?!