1817 Sept. 17

Not Paul

Paul an Apostle?

Ch Vision

§. 2. Revelation ambiguous[?]

 This under Ch Visions. §. indirectly stated[?] or under Paul’s title or Paul’s Visit 3 d to Jerusalem?

Under another hand /a succeeding hand/ we shall find him in an Epistle /a letter/ of his to the disciples in Galatia declaring positively and in the most pointed terms that the Gospel which he preached was received by him not of men but of /by/ revelation: by the revelation of Jesus Christ. […?] then if so, at

After or before the occasion on which this speech was /is represented as being/ spoken but according to his account as given in his Epistle to the Galatians at least seventeen years at the least after the time mentioned by him as the time of this /such/ his conversion he scruples not to assure /inform/ these same Galatians that neither from nor after man received the Gospel he preached was neither ‘ received by him of man’ nor otherwise taught to him than ‘by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

§. 2 or 3. Revelation pretended to by Paul - inconsistency of the pretension with his own accounts.

This revelation at what time on what occasion /conjuncture/ at what time was it made? and what did it amount to? { Put last what follows?} In his speech to the Jerusalem mob which was spoken almost at the close of his adventures /made on his fourth visit, being a visit subsequent to this which is spoken of in this part of his Epistle to the Galatians/ as reported by the author of the Acts, no trace of /not the slightest mention of/ any such revelation is to be found. On the road to Damascus, instead of giving him any such information what the voice gives him is - a put-off, referring him for it to Ananias. When he sees Ananias, Ananias tells him indeed that he have been chosen by God to see the Just One and that he is to be the Just One’s witness unto all men’, but tells him not what his evidence is to consist of. According to this same speech, at another time indeed viz. when being at Jerusalem in the temple, and praying and in a trance if by the Just One is /he means/ the Lord, so it is that he does see that same Just One but except that the sooner he can get out of Jerusalem no more does he on this occasion learn from the Just One than he had learnt before.