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It was the good pleasure of God (eudokēsen ho theos). Paul had no doubt about God’s purpose in him (1Th 2:8).
Who separated me (ho aphorisas me). Aphorizō is old word (from apo and horos) to mark off from a boundary or line. The Pharisees were the separatists who held themselves off from others. Paul conceives himself as a spiritual Pharisee “separated unto the gospel of God” (Rom 1:1, the same word aphōrismenos). Before his birth God had his plans for him and called him.