Sublime

“Pauline had been writing me, sending cables, making sure I kept her in my sights.

“Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ.” Bondservant is an improvement, but I think the proper translation should read, “Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ.” The Greek word that Paul uses here is doulos. A doulos was not a hired servant who could come and go as he pleased. A doulos was a person who had been purchased, and once purchased he became his master’s

would not be going too far to say that ‘Paul, and not Jesus, was … the Founder of Christianity’,20 and therein lie the origins of Christian heresy: ‘Paul is, in effect, the first “Christian” heretic, and his teachings – which became the foundation of later Christianity – are a flagrant deviation from the “original” or “pure” form.’21 He is the ‘fir