I Declare I'm So Happy. I Never Baptized Any of You Except Christmas in Gaius

When you read the letters, you have to kind of feel all of that. He's a really complex bundle of defenses and claims and counter claims. And I think he might be the only first person account in antiquity of an identifiable figure who claims to have ascended to heaven.

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