The Lost Books of the Bible, Part 8, Chapter I summary
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In Chapter I, Paul reaches Iconium with Demas and Hermogenes, receives a welcome from Onesiphorus and his family, and teaches in their home. The companions’ envy contrasts with the household’s joy, while Paul’s preaching presents purity, self-restraint, and rejection of worldly pleasures as paths to divine rewards.
What happens
- Paul travels from Antioch to Iconium with Demas and Hermogenes, loving and teaching them despite their hypocrisy.
- Onesiphorus, Lectra, Simmia, and Zeno wait along the highway, using Titus’s description to recognize Paul.
- Onesiphorus greets Paul, but Demas objects that he and Hermogenes receive no greeting.
- Onesiphorus questions their righteousness but offers them hospitality as well.
- The household welcomes Paul with joy, prayer, shared bread, and attention to his preaching.
- Paul declares blessings for purity, restraint, obedience to Christ, and abandonment of worldly honors and pleasures.
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