What does 2 Corinthians 12:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawfulb for a man to utter."
Verse 2 Corinthians 12:4. _CAUGHT UP INTO PARADISE_] The Jewish writers have no less than _four paradises_, as they have _seven_ heavens; but it is needless to wade through their fables. On the word _...
INTO PARADISE - The word “paradise” (παράδεισος paradeisos) occurs but three times in the New Testament; Luke 23:43; 2 Corinthians 12:4; Revelation 2:7. It occurs often in the Septuagint, as the tran...
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...
INTO. Greek. _eis._ App-104. PARADISE. See note on Ecclesiastes 2:5, UNSPEAKABLE. Greek. _arretos._ Only here. WORDS, Greek. _rhema._ See Mark 9:32. UTTER. Greek. _laleo_. App-121. Paul was alive,...
_how that he was caught up into paradise_ Was this a second vision, or only an extension of the first? St Paul's language makes the latter more probable. Early tradition is not very clear upon the sub...
ὍΤΙ ἩΡΠΆΓΗ ΕἸΣ ΤῸΝ ΠΑΡΆΔΕΙΣΟΝ. If the repetition of ἁρπάγεσθαι is somewhat in favour of the identification of paradise with the third heaven, the καὶ before οἶδα (2 Corinthians 12:3) is in favour of s...
_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...
ΉΡΠΆΓΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΑΡΠΆΖΩ (G726) хватать (_см._ 2 Corinthians 12:2). ΠΑΡΆΔΕΙΣΟΣ (G3857) рай. Это слово обозначает пристанище блаженных в самом центре небес (Hughes; Furnish; _см._ Luke 23:43...
CAUGHT UP INTO PARADISE— By the _third heaven,_ 2 Corinthians 12:2 some understand the seat of the divine glory, the place where Christ dwelleth at the Father's right-hand; and by _Paradise,_ that gar...
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...
How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. UNSPEAKABLE - not in themselves, otherwise Paul could not have heard them; but "whi...
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...
12:4 said (e-12) _ Rhema_ , 'the saying' and thence 'the things said.' It was not merely like heathen mysteries, dreadful forms of speech, but the communications were of things not suited to this lowe...
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...
(4)THAT HE WAS CAUGHT UP INTO PARADISE. — The stress laid on this second vision hinders us from thinking of it as identical with the former, either in time or in object-matter. Paradise (see Note on L...
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...
How that he was caught up into (c) paradise, and heard (d) unspeakable words, which it is not (e) lawful for a man to utter. (c) So the Greeks name that which we call a park, that is to say, a place...
_Caught up into paradise. St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas are of opinion that this third heaven and paradise are the same place, and designate the abode of the blessed. In order to understand the...
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...
4._In paradise _(889) As every region that is peculiarly agreeable and delightful (890) is called in the Scriptures the _garden of God, _it came from this to be customary among the Greeks to employ th...
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...
HOW THAT HE WAS CAUGHT UP INTO PARADISE,.... Not the earthly paradise in which our first parents were; this was destroyed by the flood, and the place where it was not now to be known; and to what purp...
How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. Ver. 4. _How that he was caught up_] Not locally (likely) but in spirit, as Acts 7:56;...
_How that he was caught up into paradise_ The seat of happy spirits, in their separate state between death and the resurrection. See note on Luke 23:43. Most of the ancients, (except Origen,) as Cleme...
PARADISE; the place of celestial blessedness. From the Scriptures, under the teaching of the Holy Spirit, we may learn as much about heaven as it is best we should know while on earth. We should there...
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...
LAWFUL: Or, possible...
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...
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how that he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for man to utter....
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V Wherefore also the elders who were disciples of the apostles tell us that those who were translated were transferred to that place (for paradise has been prepared for...
2 Corinthians 12:4 how G3754 up G726 (G5648) into G1519 Paradise G3857 and G2532 heard G191 (G5656) inexpressible G731 words G4487 which G3739 is G1832 not G3756 lawful G1832 (G5752) man G444 utter G2...
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...
INTO PARADISE (εις παραδεισον). See on Luke 23:43 for this interesting word. Paul apparently uses paradise as the equivalent of the third heaven in verse 2 Corinthians 12:2. Some Jews (_Book of the...
PARADISE See note on hades, (_ See Scofield) - (Luke 16:23). _...
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...
AND THERE HE HEARD THINGS. The false teachers may tell others about their visions and boast of how God spoke to them, but Paul's experience was too sacred to reveal! God does not allow Paul to tell wh...
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...
Ezekiel 31:9; Luke 23:43; Revelation 2:7...
Paradise. See on Luke 23:43. Unspeakable words [α ρ ρ η τ α ρ η μ α τ α]. An oxymoron, speaking which may not be spoken....
He was caught up into paradise — The seat of happy spirits in their separate state, between death and the resurrection. Things which it is not possible for man to utter — Human language being incapabl...