Paul himself never disguised the fact that he had seen Jesus, not with mortal eyes, but only with those of the Spirit, as an inner revelation. "It has pleased God," he says (Gal. i. 16), "to reveal his Son within me." [300] He confesses that the Gospel preached by him was not "of men," that he neither received nor learnt it from any man, but that he had obtained it directly from the heavenly Christ and was inspired by the Holy Ghost. [301] He seems also to have had no interest at all in giving accurate information as to the personality of Jesus, as to his fortunes and teachings. When three years after his conversion he first returns to Jerusalem, he visits only Peter and makes the acquaintance of James during the fourteen days of his stay there, troubling himself about none of the other apostles. [302] But when, fourteen years after, he meets with the "First Apostles" in the so-called Council of the Apostles in Jerusalem, he does not set about learning from them, but teaching them and procuring from them recognition of his own missionary activity; and he himself declares that he spoke with them only on the method of proclaiming the Gospel, but not on its religious content or on the personality of the historic Jesus. [303] Certainly that James whose acquaintance Paul made in Jerusalem is designated by him as the "Brother of the Lord"; [304] and from this it seems to follow that Jesus must have been an historical person. The expression "Brother," however, is possibly in this case, as so often in the Gospels, [305] only a general expression to designate a follower of Jesus, as the members of a religious society in antiquity frequently called each other "Brother" and "Sister" among themselves. 1 Cor. ix. 5 runs: "Have we [i.e., Paul and Barnabas] not also right to take about with us a wife that is a sister, even as the other Apostles and Brothers of the Lord and Cephas?" There it is evident that the expression by no means necessarily refers to bodily relationship, but that "Brother" serves only to designate the followers of the religion of Jesus. [306] Accordingly Jerome seems to have hit the truth exactly when, commenting on Gal. i. 19, he writes: "James was called the Brother of the Lord on account of his great character [though the Pauline epistles certainly show the opposite of this], of his incomparable faith and extraordinary wisdom. The other Apostles were as a matter of fact also called Brothers, but he was specially so called, because the Lord at his death had confided to him the sons of his mother" (i.e., the members of the community at Jerusalem). [307] And how then should Paul have met with a physical brother of that very Jesus whom, as will be shown, he could only treat as a myth in other respects? The thing is, considered now purely psychologically, so improbable that no conclusion can in any case be drawn from the expression concerning James as the Brother of the Lord as to the