In the last chapter, i discussed a number of points at which Paul speaks of ecstasy (and out of ecstasy) as a matter of course, without elaboration or qualification. At these times, ecstatic knowledge and practice are something he takes for granted and even invokes in the service of other – disputed – topics (for example, his apostleship). At other times, however, Paul raises the issue of religious ecstasy in order to clarify its practice or significance in a particular context (for example, glossolalia in Corinth). When this full range of talk of ecstasy is considered, the resulting discourse is complex and nuanced. For that reason, this chapter will seek an alternative to the common procedure of assigning Paul to one side or the other in an artificial binary assessment of religious ecstasy. Instead, this chapter strives to place Paul's comments within a coherent sense of the social dynamics of this public practice. What social logic might undergird Paul's statements? What kind of social power does this sort of religious experience wield in Christian origins? How is religious ecstasy controlled and interpreted within communities?