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108. WHO DOES KNOW?

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 18, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 45.

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108. WHO DOES KNOW?

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An explanation is desired of 2 Cor. 12:2.
The text reads: "I knew a man 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 third heaven." We do not know what there is to explain about the matter. The apostle states that this man (evidently himself) was caught up to the heaven where God dwells, and beheld visions and revelations of God's glory; but whether Paul saw these while remaining on the earth, by a vision of the mind, as in a dream or trance, or whether he was caught up bodily into heaven, he did not know. What mortal does know? And yet there are those who tell us that Paul had an immortal spirit which made this journey. It would certainly be seemly for all to be as modest over the matter as the apostle.