It was the good pleasure of God (ευδοκησεν ο θεος). Paul had no doubt about God's purpose in him (1 Thessalonians 2:8)…

But when it pleased God. Paul traced all his hopes of eternal life, and all the good influences which had ever affected his mind, to God.<…

In pursuing his main argument, the Apostle emphasizes the fact that his very conversion and mission to the Gentiles had first been predestined in t…

Paul was intensely desirous that the Galatian Christians should understand that he was no mere repeater of other men's doctrines, but that what he …

No one with such a personality and with such zealous persecution of the church is about to be converted by another person or by human testimony. On…

But after that it pleased God. This is the second part of the narrative and relates to his miraculous conversion. He tells us, first, that…

But when it pleased God
Here begins his account of his conversion, and call to the ministry; all which he ascribes e…

St. Paul was wonderfully brought to the knowledge and faith of Christ. All who are savingly converted, are called by the grace of God; their conver…

After showing that he did not receive the gospel from any human source before his conversion, the Apostle now proves that he did not receive it fro…