Rodan of Alexandria

160:0.1On Sun­day morn­ing, Septem­ber 18, An­drew an­nounced that no work would be planned for the com­ing week. All of the apos­tles, ex­cept Na­than­iel and Thomas, went home to visit their fam­i­lies or to so­journ with friends. This week Je­sus en­joyed a pe­riod of al­most com­plete rest, but Na­than­iel and Thomas were very busy with their dis­cus­sions with a cer­tain Greek philoso­pher from Alexan­dria named Ro­dan. This Greek had re­cently be­come a dis­ci­ple of Je­sus through the teach­ing of one of Ab­ner’s as­so­ciates who had con­ducted a mis­sion at Alexan­dria. Ro­dan was now earnestly en­gaged in the task of har­mo­niz­ing his phi­los­o­phy of life with Je­sus’ new re­li­gious teach­ings, and he had come to Ma­g­a­dan hop­ing that the Mas­ter would talk these prob­lems over with him. He also de­sired to se­cure a first­hand and au­thor­i­ta­tive ver­sion of the gospel from ei­ther Je­sus or one of his apos­tles. Though the Mas­ter de­clined to en­ter into such a con­fer­ence with Ro­dan, he did re­ceive him gra­ciously and im­me­di­ately di­rected that Na­than­iel and Thomas should lis­ten to all he had to say and tell him about the gospel in re­turn.