He acknowledged that the truths of the Gospel needed the stimulant of freedom to give them life and power.
"His remarks evidently produced a great sensation, for a variety of reasons, as we may well suppose.
"A man took the floor in opposition to this Laodicean brother.

He was a Jewish convert, a member of the Colossian Church.

His name was Theodotus.

Born a Jew, he had renounced his religion and became a Greek Sophist, practised law at Scio, and heard Paul at Mars Hill, where, with Dionysius the Areopagite, with whom he was visiting, he was converted.
He had established himself at Colosse, in the practice of law.

He was unusually tall for a man of his descent, had beautifully regular Jewish features, and was a captivating speaker.
"He said that they had 'heard strange things to-day.