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2 Corinthians 12:2

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I know a man in Christ who was caught up into the third heaven fourteen years ago—whether in the body, I don’t know, or whether out of the body, I don’t know; God knows.

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Verse 2. I know a man, and so forth He speaks of himself, as it were of a third person.—Whether in the body, I know not. If Saint Paul himself knew not, how can we pretend to decide, whether his soul was for some moments separated from his body, or in what manner he saw God. Witham.—It appears that this took place about the period when the Holy Ghost commanded that he should be separated for the work whereunto he was called. Acts 13:2.

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