...spoken of is 2 Corinthians xii. 1-3 — especially verses 2, 3 — in which St. Paul declares that he could not tell whether he was in the body or out of the body when, on one occasion, he was caught up into the third heaven. Here, it is said, we have the...

...near, and afterwards found Him standing by him in prison, before judges, and upon the sinking ship, and could not tell whether He was in the body or out of the body while He talked with him. St. Stephen in his extremity saw his Lord at hand to succour. It...

...truths are dim ; and when St. Paul was exalted to a spiritual ecstasy, the senses were so closed that he could not tell whether he was "in the body or out of the body." A time of commercial stagnation is apt to be a time of spiritual quickening, while great...

...truths are dim; and when St. Paul was exalted to a spiritual ecstasv, the senses were so closed that he could not tell whether he was "in the body or out of the body." A time of commercial stagnation is apt to be a time of spiritual quickening, while great...

...the same sensations that it had while connected with it. St. Paul, when caught up into paradise, says he could not tell whether he was in the body or out of the body, which is about the same as to say that a man may be out of the body and yet seem to himself...

...if the passage in Job were gone. For when the apostle says of his vision of the third heaven, that he could not tell whether he was " in the body or out of the body," no words are needed to assure us that here there was no question of the resurrection body....

...instance to cite in favour of actual consciousness separate from bodily sense. S. Paul expressly says that he could not tell whether he was "in the body or out of the body," ie, he had no consciousness of his body either way. And yet he was clearly conscious of...

...tell to the inhabitants of Earth, could not have been in his normal condition, for he informs us that he could not tell whether he was in the body or out of it. The angel that informed St. John that he must make another prophecy before the inhabitants of Earth,...

...of miles; he would have known (in this case) that he must be out of the body. Yet he declares that he could not tell whether he was in the body or out of it when he was caught away into paradise. His uncertainty in the matter forbids us to suppose either that...

...up into the third heaven and saw things there not lawful to tell. He says the man was not dead, but he could not tell whether he was in the body or out of the body. It was done in such a way that the person forgot all about himself, and therefore could not...