For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
For I neither received it of Prayer of Manasseh , neither was I taight it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. Viz, when I was carried by Him into the third heaven ( 2 Corinthians 12:1).
Those who are taught by men, when they have been vehement and hot in the opposite cause, require time and much ingenuity for their conversion. But he who was so suddenly converted and was rendered clean and sober at the very peak of his madness had obviously received a divine vision and teaching.
Do you see how he constantly affirms that he became God’s disciple, in contrast to the claim of those who imposed the circumcision upon the Galatians, arguing that those who become disciples of Christ, i.e. Peter and James and John, permit the circumcision, whereas he is a disciple of the disciples and, therefore, they should not pay attention to them rather than to him?
