"Hvad er nu dette? Galimathias. Han er aabenbart selv hildet i et Sandsebedrag," skrev Kierkegaard opbragt i sin dagbog fra 1851 efter at have hørt Paulli, der netop var blevet teologisk doktor, prædike i Slotskirken om "Glæden i den Hellig-Aand". Ved denne kirke var Paulli i en alder af 31 blevet ansat som hofpræst, og da han - der siden skoletiden havde været bedste ven med H. L. Martensen - tre år senere ægtede I. P. Mynsters ældste datter, var hans kirkelige fremtid sikret. Mynster, Martensen og Paulli udgjorde et stærkt, teologisk triumvirat, og ingen af dem ville have drømt om, at det navnlig skulle være i forbindelse med Kierkegaard, at de nævnes i dag.		"Now what is this? Gibberish. He is evidently himself prey to an hallucination," Kierkegaard wrote indignantly in his diary from 1851 after having heard Paulli, who had just become Doctor of Theology, preach in the Palace Church on "The Joy in the Holy Spirit." Paulli had been engaged as court preacher at this church at the age of 31, and when he - who since his school days had been best friends with H. L. Martensen - three years later married I. P. Mynster's oldest daughter, his clerical future was secured. Mynster, Martensen and Paulli made up a strong theological triumvirate, and none of them would have dreamed that it would be mainly in connection with Kierkegaard that they would be mentioned today.

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