“To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:”
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.
Church Fathers on Galatians 1:16
“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…
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