Why did Paul and stylus make such a good team?
It's amazing how a single habit can affect one's whole life. Such was the case for our friend the apostle Paul.
We've already learned how Paul's non-existent bathing regimen influenced his relationship with his protégé Timothy, as well as how it caused the unfortunate death of young Eutychus. Paul's aroma even tempted James, Jesus' half-brother and pastor of the church of Jerusalem, into the sin of eisegesis!
The horror!
Add another victim to Paul's refusal to bathe: the good Tertius. Tertius was Paul's scribe for his letter to the Romans (Romans 16:22). It was common for scholars to give dictation to a scribe when composing their missives. But Tertius is mentioned only once, which is odd since he personally greets the church in Rome. He must have been a believer. Why did he transcribe only one of Paul's letters?
I think we all know the answer. Poor Tertius faithfully fulfilled his task to write down sixteen chapters and could do no more. When Tertius quit, Paul mumbled something about not fighting the good fight and declared he didn't need a scribe. He could write his own letters. In fact, he didn't even need to write! He could get a smartphone and email them!
That didn't last long. He grew frustrated when he realized his fingers were too dirty to use the fingerprint scanner to turn his phone on. But then he found the years of grease and grime made it impossible for the screen to track his finger taps on the screen. It came out all garbled, and the autocorrects were horrible. In fact, the reason we don't have his first and third letters to the church in Corinth is because he wrote them on a smartphone and they're completely illegible.
Enter Agabus, the prophet. When he visited Paul and learned of his plight, he had just the answer. He, too, had trouble with a typical smartphone as too many prophetic-utterances-turned-performance-art (see Acts 21:10-11) had left his fingers gnarled and arthritic. He introduced Paul to the Motorola Stylus, which comes with a little stick like the old Palm Pilots. With the stylus, Paul could easily enter his security code and write to his heart's content.
Paul was so excited that he showed Silas, but his traveling companion was unimpressed. He was holding out for the iPhone XVIs.
We've already learned how Paul's non-existent bathing regimen influenced his relationship with his protégé Timothy, as well as how it caused the unfortunate death of young Eutychus. Paul's aroma even tempted James, Jesus' half-brother and pastor of the church of Jerusalem, into the sin of eisegesis!
The horror!
Add another victim to Paul's refusal to bathe: the good Tertius. Tertius was Paul's scribe for his letter to the Romans (Romans 16:22). It was common for scholars to give dictation to a scribe when composing their missives. But Tertius is mentioned only once, which is odd since he personally greets the church in Rome. He must have been a believer. Why did he transcribe only one of Paul's letters?
I think we all know the answer. Poor Tertius faithfully fulfilled his task to write down sixteen chapters and could do no more. When Tertius quit, Paul mumbled something about not fighting the good fight and declared he didn't need a scribe. He could write his own letters. In fact, he didn't even need to write! He could get a smartphone and email them!
That didn't last long. He grew frustrated when he realized his fingers were too dirty to use the fingerprint scanner to turn his phone on. But then he found the years of grease and grime made it impossible for the screen to track his finger taps on the screen. It came out all garbled, and the autocorrects were horrible. In fact, the reason we don't have his first and third letters to the church in Corinth is because he wrote them on a smartphone and they're completely illegible.
Enter Agabus, the prophet. When he visited Paul and learned of his plight, he had just the answer. He, too, had trouble with a typical smartphone as too many prophetic-utterances-turned-performance-art (see Acts 21:10-11) had left his fingers gnarled and arthritic. He introduced Paul to the Motorola Stylus, which comes with a little stick like the old Palm Pilots. With the stylus, Paul could easily enter his security code and write to his heart's content.
Paul was so excited that he showed Silas, but his traveling companion was unimpressed. He was holding out for the iPhone XVIs.
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