So that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with any flesh and blood, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I was, but I went into Arabia. — the revelation immediately produces mission ('hina euangelizōmai'); Paul's refusal of Jerusalem consultation establishes his independence, and the otherwise unmentioned Arabian sojourn suggests a period of theological gestation under divine tutelage.

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