An Early Description of Paul
Galatians 1:1
Excerpt
The word “Paul” in Greek literally means “small,” or “little.”2 The earliest physical description we have of Paul comes from The Acts of Paul and Thecla, a second-century apocryphal writing that describes the apostle as “a man of small stature, with a bald head and crooked legs, in a good state of body, with eyebrows meeting and nose somewhat hooked, full of friendliness; for now he appeared like a man, and now he had the face of an angel.”3 Although written many years after his death, these words may well reflect an authentic tradition about Paul’s actual likeness.
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