2Corinthians:12:2-4




geneva@2Corinthians:12:2 @ I knew a man (note:)I speak this in Christ, that is, it is spoken without boastfulness, for I seek nothing but Christ Jesus only.(:note) in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the Into the highest heaven: for we do not need to dispute subtly upon the word «third». But yet this passage is to be marked against those who would make heaven to be everywhere. third heaven.

geneva@2Corinthians:12:3 @ And I knowe such a man (whether in the body, or out of the body, I can not tell: God knoweth)

geneva@2Corinthians:12:4 @ How that he was caught up into (note:)So the Greeks name that which we call a park, that is to say, a place where trees are planted, and wild beasts kept. And those that translated the Old Testament out of Hebrew into Greek, called the garden of Eden by this name, into which Adam was put immediately after his creation, as a most delicate and pleasant place. And from this it occurred that the blessed seat of the glory of God is called by that name.(:note) paradise, and heard Which no man is able to utter. unspeakable words, which it is not Which the saints themselves are not by any means able to express, because it is God himself. This is the way that Clement of Alexandria explains this passage, Strom. 5. lawful for a man to utter.


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