I've just been reading the Holy Father's homilies about St. Paul(they'll be in this week's Potpourri). May I say, however, that one of the things I love about Paul is I believe he's the only figure in history who literally talked someone to death. To wit, Acts 20:7-9:
On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the morrow; and he prolonged his speech until midnight. There were many lights in the upper chamber where we were gathered. And a young man named Eu'tychus was sitting in the window. He sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer; and being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead.
Not to worry, though. Paul brought him back to life. And kept on talking.
he conversed with them a long while, until daybreak, and so departed. And they took the lad away alive, and were not a little comforted.
Whether by the lad's being alive or by the end of Paul's homily it would be impolitic to speculate.
