A free speech tale

“He who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.”

― John Milton, Areopagitica

When Paul the Apostle first climbed the slopes of the Areopagus to give his sermon on the resurrection of Christ, he knew he would be breaking the law be preaching a foreign god on the hill of Athens.

Jesus had died on the cross some seventeen years ago, and Jewish residents had driven Paul out of Thessalonica and Berea, leaving him to travel Greece alone.