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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...
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INTO PARADISE - The word “paradise” (παράδεισος
paradeisos) occurs but three times in the New Testament; Luke 23:43; 2
Corinthians 12:4; Reve
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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 Apos...
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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...
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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...
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THE THORN AND THE GRACE (2 Corinthians 12:1-10)...
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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,...
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_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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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 "whic...
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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...
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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...
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INTO PARADISE] Paradise is used as a synonym for the third heaven of 2
Corinthians 12:2. The word is used in the NT. for the abode of the
blessed after death: cp. Luke 23:43; Revelation 2:7. LAWFUL] b...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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THE APOSTLE'S VISION: IF HE CHOSE, HE COULD BOAST OF IT....
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καὶ οἶδα τὸν τοιοῦτον κ. τ. λ.: _and I know
such a man_ (he speaks with such caution and reticence of this
momentous event in his spiritual life that he will not even describe
it in the first person)...
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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 in...
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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...
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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...
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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 w...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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;...
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_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...
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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...
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HOW THAT HE WAS CAUGHT UP INTO PARADISE, AND HEARD UNSPEAKABLE WORDS,
WHICH IT IS NOT LAWFUL FOR A MAN TO UTTER....
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PAUL'S BOAST OF HIS WEAKNESS.
Supernatural revelations:...
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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...
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LAWFUL:
Or, possible...
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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...
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SEE POOLE ON "2 CORINTHIANS 12:3...
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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....
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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...
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2 Corinthians 12:4 how G3754 up G726 (G5648) into G1519 Paradise G3857
and G2532 heard G191 (G5656) inexpr
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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...
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‘I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I
know not; or whether out of the body, I know not; God knows), such a
one caught up even to the third heaven. And I know such a man ...
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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...
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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...
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PARADISE
See note on hades,
(_ See Scofield) - (Luke 16:23). _...
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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...
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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 be...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Of such an one will I glory; yet of myself I will not glory._ He
speaks of himself when caught up and in his ordinary state as two
different persons, so as not to be thought vain-glorious (Œcumenius)...
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_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;...
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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
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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...
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Ezekiel 31:9; Luke 23:43; Revelation 2:7...
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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....
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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...