Galatians 1:16 (WEB)
to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,
Catechism · 2
"And in Jesus Christ, His Only Son, Our Lord"
“Similarly Paul will write, regarding his conversion on the road to Damascus, "When he who had set me apart before I was born, and had called me through his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles..."” — Catechism footnote: Gal 1:15-16.
"He Ascended into Heaven and is Seated at the Right Hand of the Father"
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“Only in a wholly exceptional and unique way would Jesus show himself to Paul "as to one untimely born", in a last apparition that established him as an apostle.” — Catechism footnote: 1 Cor 15:8; cf. 9:1; Gal 1:16.
Fathers and councils · 9
Irenaeus of Lyons
“…when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by His grace, to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles,” it was not, as I have already observed, one person who had been born from the womb, and another who preached the Gospel of the Son of God; but that same…” — editor's note: Gal. i. 15, 16.
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Eusebius of Caesarea
“In addition to these, Paul, that “chosen vessel,” “not of men neither through men, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ himself and of God the Father who raised him from the dead,” was appointed an apostle, being made worthy of the call by a vision and by a voice which was uttered in a revelation from heaven.” — editor's note: See Acts ix. 3 sqq.; xxii. 6 sqq.; xxvi. 12 sqq.; Gal. i. 16; 1 Cor. xv. 8–10
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“Orth.—Hear now the holy Paul when he says “But when it pleased God who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his son in me that I might preach him among the heathen, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood neither went I up to them that were apostles before me.”” — editor's note: Gal. i. 15–17
Read the whole comment“And in his Epistle to the Galatians he writes, “But when it pleased God who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace to reveal His Son in me that I might preach Him among the heathen.”” — editor's note: Gal. i. 15, 16
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“The one who hesitated, and while wishing to follow, delayed it and took counsel because of his family, or blessed Paul, who, the moment the stewardship was entrusted to him, ‘straightway conferred not with flesh and blood?’” — editor's note: Gal. i. 16.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew
“…what is here said, “flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee,” with the Apostolic declaration, “Immediately I was not content with flesh and blood,” [Gal 1:16] meaning there by this expression the Jews; so that here also the same thing is shewn in different words, that not by the teaching of the Pharisees,…” — the author cites it
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Tertullian
“…it pleased God to reveal to him His Son, to preach Him amongst the heathen, immediately conferred not with flesh and blood,” as he writes to the Galatians, (meaning by the phrase) the circumcision, that is to say, Judaism.” — editor's note: See i. 15, 16.
Read the whole comment“…consulted, determined, by the authority of the Holy Ghost, that “a yoke should not be put upon men’s necks which their fathers even had not been able to bear.”” — editor's note: See Gal. i. 11–24, compared with Acts xv. 5–29.
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Jerome
“And the Apostle Paul, speaking of the corrupt doctrine and works of the Jews, says: ‘I rested not in flesh and blood.’” — editor's note: Gal. i. 16.
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Cross-references · 14
Cited together in Against Heresies V.12.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.12.
Cited together in Catechism §442.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.12.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.12.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.12.
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 16:13–19 (8) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Catechism §442 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §442 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §442 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §442.
Cited together in Catechism §442.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.12.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.12.