The Coming Day, the Coming Fire

The Coming Day, the Coming Fire
1 Corinthians 3.12-17

I love sightseeing around ancient ruins. Like many historians who have had the good fortune to travel round the ancient world, I have stood in the Temple of Apollo in Corinth, in the synagogue at Capernaum, in the Forum at Rome, and in many other places where history was made, where events took place which still reverberate today.

But all visitors to ancient sites have to use a good deal of imagination. Even when buildings and monuments have been skillfully restored, they almost always look significantly different to how they would have looked to their first builders. You have to imagine the Elgin Marbles back in Athens, not in the British Museum. You have to ‘see’ the ancient synagogues with worshippers praying, listening, discussing. When you stand beside the huge Senate building that Julius Caesar put up in the Forum at Rome, you have to imagine it covered, not in the boring brick we see today, but in gleaming marble...

Taken from Paul 1 Corinthians for Everyone – by Tom Wright