Instead of calling his encounter with Jesus in Damascus a vision, Paul experienced it as an apocalupsis, a “revelation.”53 Like the Latin revelatio, the Greek apocalupsis meant “unveiling.” A veil was, as it were, suddenly stripped away from a reality that had been there all the time, but which we had not seen before. At Damascus, it seemed to Paul as though scales had been removed from his eyes and he had an entirely new insight into the nature of God.
