I stand by it, they wanted him in Rome, he didn't go, he lived. Can't say the same for others.
Yeah? They wanted him and he didn't go? Facing death? Sounds more along the lines that he refused to show up in a foreign nation to pay a parking ticket. Stand all you will and may it do you well. From the tone of your original post, one might assume that Mossad style hit squads were searching high and low for him, and all the time, he was employed by the University, preaching in his church, living in a baronial estate with land and farmers working for him and you say that Church wanted him dead. Rather toothless, this Church, wouldn't you say?