These suggest a vision which revealed Jesus in his heavenly
glory at the right hand of the divine throne, not
unlike that
seen by the martyr Stephen when he looked up to heaven and «
saw the
glory of God, and Jesus standing at God's right hand».47 So Goguel comments, «When we consider the part played by the faith in the resurrection in Paul's religious life and thought as a result of Christ's appearance to him, we
see that most essential to his faith was not the feeling that Jesus had returned to the environment of his life on earth preceding his passion but a belief in his glorification, i.e. in his transition to life in heaven where death has no more dominion over him.»