...reached through innumerable years. All this is strange to us, but it was not strange to St. Paul, who was caught up to the third heaven, whether in the body or out of the body be could not tell. Nor have these records of overpowering religious emotion been strange to...

...inferred from what he tells us in 2 Cor. xii. 1 — 4, of a certain memorable occasion when he was caught up to the third heaven, whether in the body or out of the body he does not know, but he was caught up, he says, into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words...

...exist and have conscious exercises of a very exalted kind ; for he says, speaking of his rapture into heaven, " Whether in the body or out of the body, I cannot tell." Now, if the soul could not act without the body, he could have told certainly that he was in...

...exist and have conscious exercises of a very exalted kind ; for he says, speaking of his rapture into heaven, " Whether in the body or out of the body, I cannot tell." Now, if the soul could not act without the body, he could have told certainly that he was in...

...Phil. i. 23. I am in a strait. And in another place, " I knew a man (says he) that was taken up into the third heaven, whether in the body, or out of the body I cannot say," 2 Cor. xii. 2. That was himself, but he would not own himself in it. And in another place he...

...to be your own identical, complete self, the body only excepted. And then I have to point you to St. Paul caught up to the third heaven, whether in the body or out of the body he knows not. I point you to a Daniel, an Ezekiel, a St. John ; to all the prophets in their...

...and I wonder how He can be so kind to me. I cannot say, with Paul, that I have been ' caught up into heaven ; whether in the body or out of the body I cannot tell ; ' but there is a gracious unfolding of the Scriptures here and there. I have seen that passage...

...God (Paul says) I am beside myself;" that is, he is literally outside of himself, or as when in tho third heaven, " whether in the body or out of the body I cannot tell." There is no real entrance into the holiest of all, but as I am outside and apart from everything...

...through innumerable years3. All this is strange to us ; but it was not strange to St Paul, who was caught up to the third heaven, whether in the body or out of the body he could not tell ; nor have these records of overpowering religious emotion been strange...

...exemption from infirmity. Rather was Paul, the greatest of apostles, more than any other sensible of it. Caught up to the third heaven (whether in the body or out of it, he could not tell), he gloried of such an one, not of himself save in his weaknesses. And when...