Galatians 1:15-16 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,… The object of this Divine revelation was "His Son"; not the truth about Him, or His work, or His death, or His glory, but Himself — Himself including all. His person is the sum of the gospel. This revelation may have been in some sense subsequent to the direct call, or it may refer also to the appearance of the Redeemer near Damascus qualifying him for the apostleship (1 Corinthians 9:1). It gave him full and glowing views of the Redeemer's person, including His various relations to God and to man, — such views as fixed the apostle's faith upon Him, centred his love in Him, and enabled him to hold Him out in his preaching as the one living and glorified Saviour. It was by no process of reasoning that he came to such conclusions, by no elaborate and sustained series of demonstrations that he wrought out his Christology. Gad revealed His Son in him, Divine light was flashed in upon him, so that he saw what he had not seen before, fully, suddenly, and by a higher than intuitive suggestion. He had not been taught, and he did not need to be taught by any of the apostles. (John Eadie, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, |
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