When he harangued his people from the pulpit, Paul affected the figurative style and the theatrical gestures of an Asiatic sophist, while the cathedral resounded with the loudest and most extravagant acclamations in the praise of his divine eloquence.

His council chamber and his throne, the splendour with which he appeared in public, the suppliant crowd who solicited his attention, the multitude of letters and petitions to which he dictated his answers, and the perpetual hurry of business in which he was involved, were circumstances much better suited to the state of a civil magistrate than to the humility of a primitive bishop. By his pride and luxury the Christian religion was rendered odious in the eyes of the Gentiles. His ecclesiastical jurisdiction was venal and rapacious he extorted frequent contributions from the most opulent of the faithful, and converted to his own use a considerable part of the public revenue. But Paul considered the service of the church as a very lucrative profession. The wealth of that prelate was a sufficient evidence of his guilt, since it was neither derived from the inheritance of his fathers, nor acquired by the arts of honest industry. He was also accused of corruption on a grand scale. His Monarchianist teachings aroused strong opposition in the church. He held the civil office of Procurator ducenarius. Paul was born at Samosata into a family of humble origin. He was a believer in monarchianism, a nontrinitarian doctrine his teachings reflect adoptionism. Paul of Samosata ( Greek: Παῦλος ὁ Σαμοσατεύς, lived from 200 to 275 AD) was Bishop of Antioch from 260 to 268 and the originator of the Paulianist heresy named after him. Paul of Samosata preaches from the pulpit.

Gerçek Bir Hikaye by Lucian of Samosata