imprisoned during the period that lasted until, as God intended, faith was invasively revealed (apokalyphthênai; 3:23). It is striking that at these four important junctures in Galatians Paul uses the noun apokalypsis and the verb apokalyptô. In 1:12 and 16 he says that his gospel came into being when God apocalypsed Christ to him. That event was the genesis of Paul’s christological apocalyptic, for it was there that God opened his eyes to the presence of the risen Lord Jesus Christ in the church.