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Christians authors on the Little man, Paul.
Many of my critics of Disqus will know of my discussions on Paul, which by the way corresponds with some notable Christian commentators of the Bible from the 17th-century to the present day. No Bible reading Christian Protestant or any sect within the Protestantism would disavow the work of Matthew Henry (1662-1714), or his commentaries on biblical verses. He was also an ardent reader of all ancient Christian text, and I got to be a fan of his exposés on Paul. Through the Acts of Paul, which encompass the Third Letter to the Corinthians, and the Acts of Paul & Thecla, and other epistles with Paul’s name to them. However, my concern today are the Acts of Paul & Thecla, the Third Letter to the Corinthians, and Matthew Henry’s commentary on Acts 9:1-9.
Third Letter to the Corinthians, where we find the church-father, Tertullian (c. 155 – c. 220) blowing a misogynist fuse on women, and unwittingly exposing Christian’s counterfeiting to posterity. Exposing the forgery of Christian text going on in scriptoriums. Also, we can see this by examining the oldest manuscripts (MSS) with later version and see the added forged texts. Examples: Mark 16: 1-8, with later translations containing the added verses, see Mark 16:9-20, and the Johannine Comma (1 John 5:7-8), also with added text are both fraudulent examples. Tertullian wrote: But if the writings which wrongly go under Paul’s name, claim Thecla’s example as a licence for women’s teaching and baptising, let them know that, in Asia, the presbyter who composed that writing. As if he were augmenting Paul’s fame from his store, after being convicted, and confessing that he had done it for love of Paul, was removed from his office. Scroll down to chapter 17 of the Christian link
Matthew Henry’s commentaries.
His name in Hebrew was Saul-desired though as remarkably little in stature as his namesake king Saul was tall and stately; one of the ancients calls him. Homo tricubitalis—but four feet and a half in height; his Roman name which he went by among the citizens of Rome was Paul—little. He was born in Tarsus, a city of Cilicia. Taken from Matthew Henry’s commentaries on Acts 9:1-9. Christians will tell you the Saul was given the name Paul as his Christian name, well, it was not, it was his Roman appellation for his stature!
Acts of Paul & Thecla.
At length, they saw a man coming (namely Paul), of a small stature with meeting eyebrows, bald [or shaved] head, bow-legged, strongly built, hollow-eyed, with a large crooked nose; he was full of grace, for sometimes he appeared as a man, sometimes he had the countenance of an angel. And Paul saw Onesiphorus and was glad. Extract from Acts of Paul & Thecla, chapter 1, verse 7.
“And cast him out of the city, and stoned him, and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul.” — Acts vii. 58.
What do you say to these Christian authors of Paul, who did not mention Saul’s complicity in the murder of Stephen, or his lying, boasting, and of a wonderful education he had for a short tentmaker?
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Jero Jones
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