Verses on Various Occasions · Character

Paul

Apostle and writer of epistles, referenced in devotional contexts.

minor

Also known as St. Paul, LXX St. Paul, blessèd Paul, mine

Paul shows up with force in XLI: A Word in Season. The page is where that presence becomes real.

Cited as 'holy Paul' who rose on Mars' hill as a lone soldier.

Free preview opens at this moment — character cards, Character Web, and themes sit beside the text as you read.

In XLI: A Word in Season: Cited as 'holy Paul' who rose on Mars' hill as a lone soldier. Later, in LXI: David and Jonathan: Referenced as…

Continue beside the text

The fuller portrait of Paul sits in Reading Lens — open the free preview to keep reading with notes on the page.

Character Web

30 connections

A slice of how Paul sits in the book — open the reader for the full interactive map.

Relationship types

Character groups

+25 more in the full Character Web

Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.

The emotional and psychological peak occurs in the stanza’s shift from defensive rebuke (“O rail not”) to a pr…

Full beat labels and climax notes unlock in the reader.

Paul appears across 11 companion beats. Open any chapter in the free preview to see the notes beside the text.

XLI: A Word in Season
Cited as 'holy Paul' who rose on Mars' hill as a lone soldier.
LXI: David and Jonathan
Referenced as an example of one who lost a comrade, providing a warning about love and memory.
LXX: St. Paul at Melita
St. Paul, the many-gifted man, steps onto the promised shore after surviving the water peril, gathers sticks for a fire, and is bitten by a viper but receives instant aid.
Our Future
Referenced as 'Paul's sad girdle,' symbolizing the pilgrim's bound life.
LXXVII: Taormini
Alluded to as the Saint who was caught up to the third heaven and endured fourteen years of trials.
LXXXI: Warfare
Cited as the example of one who left quiet retirement to preach, facing persecution and death.
Zeal and Patience
Addressed as 'comrade bold of toil and pain' and 'prisoner of the Lord'; his patient endurance of chains is the central example.
XCVII: St. Paul
Appears as a mysterious stranger who becomes the narrator's guest, later revealed to be St. Paul.
CXIV: Judaism
Referenced as 'fervent Paul' who asked to bear the accursed tree like Christ but received no hopeful answer.
CXX: The Married and the Single
Cited as a strong-hearted apostle and example of the married state's offspring.
Matins—Wednesday
Cited as the example for the deed of lifting hearts and hands in prayer.

Chapter companion notes

Spoil-light check-ins for Paul unlock in the free preview.