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.
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
Je connais un homme en Christ, qui fut, il y a quatorze ans, ravi jusqu'au troisième ciel si ce fut dans son corps je ne sais, si ce fut hors de son corps je ne sais, Dieu le sait).
KJV
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.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
ision is only of such things as exist within the soul by their essence, as is said in the gloss [*On 2 Cor. 12:2 , taken from Augustine (Gen. ad lit. xii. 28)]. But the material things cannot enter by their essence into man's soul, nor into the angel's mind. Therefore they cannot…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
30]. Therefore man's soul is not carried away to things divine. On the contrary, The Apostle says ( 2 Cor. 12:2 ): "I know a man in Christ . . . rapt even to the third heaven." On which words a gloss says: "Rapt, that is to say, uplifted contrary to nature." I answer that, Raptur…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
(Gen. ad lit. xii, 6,7), "pictures of bodies are seen in the imaginary vision." Now Paul is stated ( 2 Cor. 12:2 , 4 ) to have seen certain pictures in his rapture, for instance of the "third heaven" and of "paradise." Therefore he would seem to have been rapt to an imaginary vis…
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