<p>1:16- see on Acts 9:20.</p><p><em>To reveal His Son in me- </em>Saul of Tarsus must&rsquo;ve seemed the most unlikely of men to convert to Christ. But he later refers to how God chose &ldquo;to <em>reveal</em> his son in me&rdquo;. The Greek word <em>apokalupto</em> means literally &lsquo;to take the cover off&rsquo;. The implication is that Christ is passively within each person, but has to be revealed in them, through response to the Gospel. The cover can be taken off every single man or women with whom we come into contact The Galatians passage could equally mean that Paul was called as an apostle to &lsquo;take the cover off&rsquo; Christ to others; and yet Paul felt his calling was to all people on earth, to the ends of the world (Acts 13:47)- to every single person of all the Gentile nations (Rom. 15:11; 2 Tim. 4:17).</p><p><em>That I might preach him among the Gentiles-&nbsp; </em>To preach Christ is to reveal Him to men through ourselves- this is the purpose for which we are called, that our lamp was lit, to reveal Christ to others through us. And thus Paul could conclude by saying that he bore in his body perhaps an idiom for his life, cp. the &lsquo;broken body&rsquo; of the Lord we remember the stigmata of the Lord Jesus (Gal. 6:17). The whole burden of his message was therefore the Lord Jesus, rather than theology or clever apologetic arguments.</p><p><em>Immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood</em>- Paul's attitude to his brethren seems to have changed markedly over the years. He begins as being somewhat detached from them; perhaps as all new converts are initially. We see the Truth for what it is, we realize we had to make the commitment we did, and we are happy to do our own bit in preaching the Truth. But often a real concern and care for our brethren takes years to develop. Paul seems to tell the Galatians that the Gospel he preached had not been given to him by men, because in the early days after his conversion he was rather indifferent towards other Christian believers; &quot;(Paul) conferred not with flesh and blood&quot; after his conversion, neither did he go to see the apostles in Jerusalem to discuss how to preach to Israel; instead, Paul says, he pushed off to Arabia for three years in isolation. He was unknown by face to the Judean ecclesias, and even after his return from Arabia, he made no special effort to meet up with the Apostles (Gal. 1). The early Paul comes over as self-motivated, a maverick, all too ready to fall out with Barnabas, all too critical of Mark for failing to rise up to Paul's level of fearless devotion (Acts 15:39).</p>