SEV Biblia, Chapter 1:12
ni yo lo recibí, ni aprendí de hombre, sino por revelacin de Jess, el Cristo.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Galatians 1:12
Verse 12. I neither received it of man] By means of any apostle, as was remarked ver. 1. No man taught me what I have preached to you. But by the revelation of Jesus Christ.] Being commissioned by himself alone; receiving the knowledge of it from Christ crucified.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 12. For I neither received it of man , etc..] Not from Gamaliel, at whose feet he was brought up; he received the law from him, and knowledge in the Jews' religion, and in the traditions of the elders, but not a whit of the Gospel; on the contrary, he received prejudices against it from him, or was strengthened in them by him; no, nor from the apostles of Christ neither, whom he saw not, had no conversation with for some years, after he was a preacher of the Gospel, and therefore did not receive it at their hands; no, nor from Ananias, nor any other man: neither was I taught it : that is, by man; he did not learn it of men, as men learn law, physics, logic, rhetoric, natural philosophy, and other things at school: but by the revelation of Jesus Christ ; meaning, not through Christ being revealed to him by the Father, as in ( Galatians 1:16) though it is a sense not to be overlooked; but by Christ, the revealer of it to him; and regards either the time of his rapture into the third heaven, when he heard words not to be uttered; or rather since that is not so certain when it was, the time of his conversion, when Christ personally appeared unto him, and made him a minister of his Gospel; and immediately from himself, without the interposition, or use of any man, or means, gave him such light into it, and such a furniture of mind for the preaching of it, that he directly, as soon as ever he was baptized, set about the ministration of it, to the admiration of the saints, and confusion of the enemies of Christ. These words furnish out another proof of the deity of Christ; for if the Gospel is not after man, nor received of, or taught by man, but by Christ, then Christ cannot be a mere man, or else being by him, it would be by man; and which also confirms the authority and validity of the Gospel, and carries in it a strong reason for the apostle's anathematizing all such as preach any other.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 10-14 - In preaching the gospel, the apostle sought to bring persons to the obedience, not of men, but of God. But Paul would not attempt to alte the doctrine of Christ, either to gain their favour, or to avoid their fury. In so important a matter we must not fear the frowns of men, no seek their favour, by using words of men's wisdom. Concerning the manner wherein he received the gospel, he had it by revelation from Heaven. He was not led to Christianity, as many are, merely by education.
Greek Textus Receptus
ουδε 3761 γαρ 1063 εγω 1473 παρα 3844 ανθρωπου 444 παρελαβον 3880 5627 αυτο 846 ουτε 3777 εδιδαχθην 1321 5681 αλλα 235 δι 1223 αποκαλυψεως 602 ιησου 2424 χριστου 5547
Vincent's NT Word Studies
12. Of man (para anqrwpou). Better, from man. Para from emphasises the idea of transmission, and marks the connection between giver and receiver. Comp. 1 Thess. ii. 13; iv. 1; 2 Tim. iii. 14; Acts x. 22. In the Gospels and Acts paralambanein usually means to take, in the sense of causing to accompany, as Matt. iv. 5; xvii. 1; Mark iv. 36, etc. Scarcely ever in the sense of receive: see Mark vii. 4. In Paul only in the sense of receive, and only with para, with the single exception of 1 Corinthians xi. 23 (apo). The simple lambanw usually with para, but with ajpo, 1 John ii. 27; iii. 22.
By the revelation of Jesus Christ (di apokaluyewv Ihsou Cristou). Not, by Jesus Christ being revealed to me, but, I received the gospel by Jesus Christ's revealing it to me. The subject of the revelation is the gospel, not Christ. Christ was the revealer. Rev. (it came to me) through revelation of Jesus Christ.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
1:12 {Nor was I taught it} (oute edidacqen). He did not receive it "from man" (para anqrwpwn, which shuts out both apo and dia of verse #1), whether Peter or any other apostle, nor was he taught it in the school of Gamaliel in Jerusalem or at the University of Tarsus. He "received" his gospel in one way, "through revelation of Jesus Christ" (di' apokaluyews iesou cristou). He used parelabon in #1Co 15:3 about the reception of his message from Christ. It is not necessary to say that he had only one (because of the aorist active parelabon, from paralambanw, for it can very well be constative aorist) revelation (unveiling) from Christ. In fact, we know that he had numerous visions of Christ and in #1Co 11:23 he expressly says concerning the origin of the Lord's Supper: "I received (parelabon, again) from the Lord." The Lord Jesus revealed his will to Paul.
