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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
For since the slanderers were saying that he was not, like the rest of the apostles, a direct hearer of Christ, but received everything from men, he says that the One Who taught Peter and the others revealed the Gospel to me Himself.
Oecumenius
He says, "For I neither received it from man." For this is what his slanderers were saying about him: that Paul received the preaching from men, not, as those supporting Peter claimed, from Christ. Therefore they said: He ought not to be trusted.
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
That is why he adds, "For neither did I receive it of man; nor did I learn it but by the revelation of Jesus Christ," whereby he precludes two ways of receiving. First, that he did not receive from man the authority to preach. As to this he says, "nor of man," i.e., purely man, "did I receive it," i.e., the authority to preach the Gospel, but of Christ: "And how shall they preach unless they be sent?" (Rom 10:15); "I have given thee for a light of the Gentiles, for a covenant of the people" (Is 42:6); "This man is to me a vessel of …
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