The Deeds of Páulus and Theókleia 3

Then Thamyris said, "Come along with me to my house and refresh yourselves." So they went to a very splendid entertainment where there was wine in abundance and very rich provision. They were brought to a table richly spread, and made to drink plentifully by Thamyris, on account of the love he had for Theókleia and his desire to marry her. Then Thamyris said, "I desire you would inform me what the teachings of this Páulus are, that I may understand them; for I have no small concern about Theókleia, seeing she so delights in that stranger’s discourses that I am in danger of losing my intended wife." Then Demas and Hermogénes together answered and said, "Let him be brought before the governor Castellius as one who endeavors to persuade the people into the new religion of the Xristianoús (anointed ones), and he, according to the order of Kæ ́sar, will put him to death, by which means you will obtain your wife; While we at the same time will teach her that the resurrection that he speaks of is already come and consists in our having children, and that we then arose again when we came to the knowledge (gnosis) of the Power." [2 Timótheos 2:18] Upon getting this account from them, Thamyris was filled with hot resentment, and rising early in the morning he went to the house of ’Onesíphoros, attended by the magistrates, the jailor, and a great multitude of people with staves, and said to Páulus; "You have perverted the city of Ikónion, and among the rest, Theókleia, who is betrothed to me, so that now she will not marry me! You must therefore go with us to the governor Castellius!" And all the multitude cried out, "Away with this impostor, for he has perverted the minds of our wives, and all the people pay attention to him!"

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