He stood quietly and stared out the window. Thoughts were racing through his mind. He paced across the room, then went back to the window. He replayed the memories over and over in his mind. His memories of Corinth. And as he looked out the window he tried to understand what had happened.

Paul had visited Corinth years ago during one of his early trips. It was a busy city even then. Corinth sat on a narrow strip of land separating two seas. Seven hundred years ago they had built a stone road across the land so freight could be more easily moved from ships on one side to the ships on the other. They tried to dig a canal for the ships to travel through more easily, but digging four miles through solid rock was just too much. Periander tried it. Julius Caesar tried it. Caligula tried it. Nero …