...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...

...again is an example, when he comes " to visions and revelations of the LORD" and speaks of himself as " caught up to the third heaven," " whether in the body or out of the body," he could " not tell." 2 The leading features of Contemplation have been now noted, intuitive...

...on that soul-inspiring vision, he might have said of himself, as Paul did when he was caught up into the third heaven, "Whether in the body or out of the body I cannot tell : God knoweth." The apostle was not permitted to disclose what he saw; but, thank God! the prophet...

...in these signs and wonders his own ecstatic visions, — as in that passage where he says he was " caught up to the third heaven," whether in the body or out of the body he could not tell — and also certain inarticulate babbling, which was called "speaking with...

...these signs and wonders his own ecstatic visions, — • as in that passage where he says he was " caught up to the third heaven," whether in the body or out of the body he could not tell — and also certain inarticulate babblings, which were called "speaking...

...in these signs and wonders his own ecstatic visions, — as in that passage where he says he was " caught up to the third heaven," whether in the body or out of the body he could not tell — and also certain inarticulate babblings, which were called "speaking...

...revelations of the Divine will. St. Paul heard " unspeakable words " which it was not lawful to utter ; was caught up to the third heaven ; whether " in the body " or " out of the body " he could not tell, and was mercifully though painfully recalled to earth by a thorn in the...

...burn or be changed from what it is to a new heaven after the last resurrection. Paul said he " was caught up to the third heaven, whether in the body or out of the body I cannot tell : God knoweth. How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words which it is...

...Assumption " might be understood in a purely mystical sense, just as St. Paul describes himself as caught up to the third heaven, ''whether in the body or out of the body, he could not tell ; " and Irenams, when iising the expression in reference to our Lord's...

...very different language from that which he uses to describe a vision ; as, for instance, when lifted up " to the third Heaven, whether in the body or out of the body I know not," or (by the hand of St. Luke) when " the man of Macedonia comes to him by night...