I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
Ver. 9. Not to company with fornicators] Dion Chrysostom saith, that Corinth was the most luxurious and lascivious city in the world, πολιν επαφροδιτατην. Strabo saith, that Venus had a most stately temple there, that was kept by more than a thousand beautiful courtesans. Another saith, that it was the brothel house of Greece, and a most filthy market town of abominable lusts. (Molin.) Cicero indeed calleth it lumen Groeciae, the light or eye of Greece. It might be so in some respects. But surely this sin was no small snuff in this light, but a blemish in this eye.