To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
Ver. 16. To reveal his Son in me] Not only as in an object (wherein the power and grace of Christ might shine and appear), but as by an instrument of revealing and preaching Christ to many.
I conferred not with flesh] i.e. With carnal reason, an evil counsellor for the soul, Romans 8:7. Indeed in human governments, where reason is shut out, there tyranny is thrust in; but where God commandeth, there to ask a reason is presumption, to oppose reason is flat rebellion.