“But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,”
But when God, who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me — the sovereign initiative ('aphorizen' — set apart, consecrated, echoing Jeremiah 1:5) and the revealed 'Son in me' ('apokalypai ton huion autou en emoi') suggest that Paul's conversion was not merely intellectual but an internalization of Christ's reality within his own being.
Church Fathers on Galatians 1:15
“But when it was the good pleasure of God, Who separated me, even from my mother's womb, and called me through His grace, to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood.” Here his object is to show, that it was by some secret providence that he was left for a time to himself. For if he was set apart from his mother's womb to be an Apostle and to be called to that ministry, yet was not actually called till…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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