No, surely. Yet, in this his address, made to his Galatian disciples, and to all such inhabitants of that country, as he could see a prospect of numbering among his disciples--in this address, written under a sense of the necessity he was under, of making for his support against the Apostles, the most plausible case his ingenuity could enable him to make,--not any, so much as the slightest, hint of any such miracle, does he venture to give. _Revelation! revelation!_--on this single word--on the ideas, which, in the minds with which he had to deal, he hoped to find associated with that word--on this ground, without any other, did he see himself reduced to seek support in his contest with the Apostles. Revelation? revelation from Jesus? from the Lord, speaking from heaven? from the Almighty? On what occasion, in what place, at what time, in what company, if in any, was it thus received? To no one of these questions does he venture to furnish an answer--or so much as an allusion to an answer. Why?--even because he had none to give. He had been a persecutor of the disciples of Jesus--this he confesses and declares: he became a preacher in the name of Jesus--this he also declares; a preacher in the name of him, of whose disciples--the whole fellowship of them--he had been a persecutor--a blood-thirsty and blood-stained persecutor. His conversion, whatever it amounted to, how came it about? what was the cause, the time, the place, the mode of it; who the percipient witnesses of it? To all these questions, _revelation_; in the single word is contained all the answer, which--in this letter--in this plea of his--he, audacious as he was, could summon up audacity enough to give. Why, on so pressing an occasion, this forbearing? Why? but that, had he ventured to tell any such story, that story being a false one, there were his opponents--there were the Apostles, or men in connection with the Apostles--to contradict it--to confute it. Had he made reference to any specific, to any individual, portion of place and time, the pretended facts might have found themselves in contradiction with some real and provable facts. But, time as well as place being left thus unparticularized,--he left himself at liberty, on each occasion, if called upon for time or place, to assign what portion of time and place the occasion should point out to him as being most convenient;--best adapted to the purpose of giving lodgment to an appropriate falsity;--and without danger, or with little danger, of exposure.