What does 2 Corinthians 12:3 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)"
AND I KNEW SUCH A MAN - It is not uncommon to repeat a solemn affirmation in order that it may be made more emphatic. This is done here. Paul repeats the idea, that he was intimately acquainted with s...
3. REVELATION IN WHICH HE MIGHT GLORY. HIS APOSTLESHIP. CHAPTER 12 _ 1. Caught up to the Third Heaven. (2 Corinthians 12:1)_ 2. The Thorn in the Flesh. (2 Corinthians 12:7) 3. The Marks of His Apo...
A SPECIAL REVELATION AND ITS SEQUEL. By an account of a great spiritual experience which he had enjoyed, Paul explains the reason why he has been called on to suffer, and the Divine interpretation of...
I must continue to boast. It is not good for me to do so, all the same I will come to visions and revelations given to me by the Lord. I know a man in Christ, who, fourteen years ago--whether it was i...
ΧΩΡῚΣ ΤΟΥ͂ ΣΏΜΑΤΟΣ (BD) rather than ἐκτὸς τ. σώμ. (D2D3FGKLMP), which comes from 2 Corinthians 12:2. B omits οὐκ οἷδα, which might come from 2 Corinthians 12:2. 3. ΚΑῚ ΟἿΔΑ Κ.Τ.Λ. _And I_ KNOW _such a...
_A VISION OF PARADISE 2 CORINTHIANS 12:1-6:_ Paul felt that there was nothing to be gained by his boasting. He said that he would only tell them about the visions and revelations that he had received...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Weaknesses in the Body (2 Corinthians 12:1-10 12 I must boast; there is nothing to be gained by it, but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord. 2I know a man...
And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) 'I know.' OUT OF. So G [ ektos (G1622)]. B Delta [ chooris (G5565)] read 'apart from.'...
20 Paul's patient and forbearing behavior among them was in striking contrast to the course of his detractors. They treated the Corinthians like slaves, while Paul served them like a slave. They devou...
HIS PRIVILEGES AND TRIALS The Apostle unwillingly resumes his boasting and tells of a revelation he received from God; but returns again to dwell on his weaknesses, and especially on his bodily infir...
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 12 V1 It is not good to be proud. But I need to tell you about *visions and *revelations of the *Lord. V2 I know a man in...
AND I KNEW SUCH A MAN. — Better, as before, _I know. _...
CHAPTER 26 STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS. 2 Corinthians 11:30; 2 Corinthians 12:1 (R.V) THE difficulties of exposition in this passage are partly connected with its form, partly with its substance: it will...
THE APOSTLE'S VISION: IF HE CHOSE, HE COULD BOAST OF IT....
THE SECRET OF STRENGTH 2 Corinthians 12:1 It is a sublime phrase- _a man in Christ._ We reach our full stature only when we are in Him. We are but fragments of manhood until the true man is formed i...
The boasting continues. However, it takes on a new and startling characteristic. In his apostleship there had been something supernatural, something not to be finally explained. Of this, he will glory...
Because of the false teachers, Paul continued boasting, though such would not ordinarily be desirable. The visions of which he spoke would have been given by God, while revelations were used to expose...
2 Corinthians 1:1-24. It is impossible to read the two epistles to the Corinthians with the smallest care without perceiving the strong contrast between the wounded tone of the first epistle (the hear...
Nevertheless, though forced to speak of himself, the apostle would glory only in his infirmities. But he is, as it were, outside his natural work. His past life unfolds before his eyes. The Corinthian...
AND I KNEW SUCH A MAN,.... The same man, namely himself, is here designed, and the same rapture spoken of, and the condition he was in expressed in the same words: which repetition is made for the mor...
And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) Ver. 3. _Whether in the body, &c._] So far did he forget and neglect his own body, which is so dear and n...
_I knew a man in Christ_ That is, a Christian. He must undoubtedly have meant himself, or the whole article had been quite foreign to his purpose. Indeed, that he meant himself is plain from 2 Corinth...
PAUL'S BOAST OF HIS WEAKNESS. Supernatural revelations:...
If in chapter 11 we have seen God's grace in sustaining the vessel through all adversity, Paul now speaks of the other side of this, the grace which gives unspeakable blessedness in being "caught up...
1-6 There can be no doubt the apostle speaks of himself. Whether heavenly things were brought down to him, while his body was in a trance, as in the case of ancient prophets; or whether his soul was d...
Ver. 3,4. HOW THAT HE WAS CAUGHT UP INTO PARADISE: some by PARADISE understand a place distinct from THE THIRD HEAVEN before mentioned, and think the apostle here speaks of more visions than one; but...
And I know such a man (whether in the body, or apart from the body, I know not; God knoweth);...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book II If they do maintain that they are more excellent than he, let them prove themselves so by their works, for they have never pretended to anything like [what he descri...
2 Corinthians 12:3 And G2532 know G1492 (G5758) such G5108 whether G1535 in G1722 body G4983 or G1535 out G1622 body G4983 not G3756 know G1492 (G5758) God G2316 knows G1492 (G5758)...
HE GLORIES IN WONDROUS EXPERIENCES, DREADFUL WEAKNESS AND THE MANIFESTATION OF MIRACLES, IN ALL OF WHICH HE IS A MATCH FOR HIS OPPONENTS (2 CORINTHIANS 12:1) Having stressed the differences between hi...
2 Corinthians 12:3-4. AND I KNOW SUCH A MAN (WHETHER IN THE BODY OR OUT OF THE BODY, [1] I KNOW NOT; GOD KNOWETH), HOW THAT HE WAS CAUGHT UP INTO PARADISE. Are we to take this as expressive of a furth...
I DO NOT KNOW (ουκ οιδα). Paul declines to pass on his precise condition in this trance. We had best leave it as he has told it....
2 Corinthians 12:2 St. Paul's Vision of Paradise. I. It is not difficult to conceive the impossibility of conveying any adequate impression of the component elements of heaven to minds encumbered wit...
CONTENTS: God's dealing with Paul. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Titus, Satan. CONCLUSION: The exalted experiences of the Spirit-filled Christian overbalance all he is called upon to b...
2 Corinthians 12:1. _It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord._ To disclosures of the divine pleasure, which cannot be known by any researches...
I REPEAT. Paul uses the word Paradise this time, which is _heaven before the Judgment._ See notes on Luke 16:19-31. See_ also_ Luke 23:43; Revelation 2:7....
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 12:1 Because his opponents boast in their spiritual experiences as well as in their ethnic identity, Paul is also forced to boast, however foolishly, in his own vis...
CHAPTER 12 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. That the Corinthians may esteem him above the false apostles, he describes his being carried up into the third heaven. II. He goes on to say (ver. 7) that to p...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ (_No break, except that of a new paragraph_.) 2 Corinthians 12:1.—Note _reading;_ probably, as in R.V. Remember how full is Paul’s sense of “_expedient_” (1 Corinthians 6:12; 1 Corin...
EXPOSITION The revelations vouchsafed to him (2 Corinthians 12:1). The counteracting "thorn in the flesh" (2 Corinthians 12:7). One more apology for glorying (2 Corinthians 12:11, 2 Corinthians 12:12)...
It is not expedient [necessary] for me doubtless to glory. [But] I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. I knew a man in Christ above [about] fourteen years ago (2 Corinthians 12:1-2), Or...
Yea, I knew such a man — That at another time....