Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
2 Corinthians 12:2
I knew a man in Christ. "Know", as in the Revised Version, not
"knew". He knows the man and could name him, since the man was himself.
See 2 Corinthians 12:7.
Above fourteen years ago this man was caught up, etc. This letter
was written A.D. 57. The being caught up was then in A.D. 43. This is
about the time that Paul was at Antioch with Barnabas, or at Tarsus
(Acts 9:29). It could not have been at conversion, for that was
about twenty years earlier than A.D. 57, nor could it be the trance in
the temple for that was too late (Acts 22:17).
Whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I
cannot tell. A person could then be caught up, see and hear, without
his body, in Paul's view. Hence the human spirit is not material.
The third heaven. A Jewish expression for that heaven which was
beyond (1) the air, and (2) beyond the sun and stars; the secret place
of the Almighty.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Acts 10:10
Acts 22:17
2 Corinthians 12:2
2 Corinthians 12:4
2 Corinthians 12:7
Revelation 2:8
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