Imagine a man having traveled the world to share the good news of Jesus Christ, under assault, military threat, the threat of kings and emperors, commoners and heretics, who would be placed in house arrest for years. Imagine what he would do after groveling for time with familiar faces and the unfamiliar to preach the good news, writing letters to all, preaching of the resurrection of the true God, Jesus Christ. Would he go and hide in a mountain cave and pray to the end? Would he go and seek peace with the emperor by making a truce not to preach once more? Would he give up and sleep a deep rest? No, rather, he, St. Paul, renewed and fearless, would ascend as an eagle towards new skies, cross seas and oceans, and walk towards new and distant lands.
The Book of Acts gives account to St. Paul's first house arrest, after which he was released. And looking upon the horizon, where earth meets the skies, he gazed far into the countryside, feeling the freshness of the freedom he attained by suffering and by persistence. And with this freedom, he continued his voyage across distant lands preaching of the freedom of Christ for which he set us free.
Even after the end of this book, St. Paul's end is unknown to us, though in letters writing of his soon departure, his death at the hands of Rome.
What mattered to him was that all would come to know Jesus Christ as he did, the message of truth, the words of eternal life. And for that he ventured and traversed from country to country on foot so that no one may be without knowledge of the good news. And voyaging through seas and dry lands, he commenced his journey once more and to continue and to never cease preaching the words of Jesus Christ.
Imagine being with him after his arrest and release after years, his face aged by the work time and suffering would have done to a seemingly insignificant man. He was the ballast of Christendom upon which all relied upon in seeming failure, in hardships, and in treachery, where they would reach to find safe harbor in his words and the fortitude found within him. He was a legend, and it would have been an honor to be beside him on ship and on land, to hold fast in faith and to believe.