19.What was God pleased to do?

God was pleased to reveal His own Son in Paul, that Paul might announce the Gospel concerning Him to the nations of the earth.

God first had separated Paul from his mother’s womb as a baby, and then had called him (on no basis other than Divine foreknowledge and election) to be an apostle to the Gentiles, opening his eyes to behold God’s Lamb who was offered for the sins of the world.