Date (happened)
between 64 and 68
(possible)
passage 529016 (lecture nid 1055): 'the churches teach that he was martyred, that maybe he was fed to the lions by Nero'
Told / reported
18 June 1971
(probable)
delivery claim [d1] on lecture nid 1055 (probable, transcript's own leading one-token chrome dateline '6/18/1971')
Neville challenges the church tradition that Paul was martyred -- possibly "fed to the lions" under Nero -- pointing out that Scripture itself never records any such death, and that the Greek word rendered "martyr" simply means "witness." He reframes Paul instead as a witness to the inner Christ, drawing on his own experienced "crucifixion" through six vortices as confirmation of the same mystery Paul described.