...Lord, we are dead to all else. As Paul, caught up into the third heaven, was so occupied with Him, he could not tell whether he was in the body or out of the body. His mind •was absorbed, he knew not whether he had a body, or whether he had not a body....

..."caught up into the third heavens and heard unspeakable words, not lawful for man to utter." He says he could not tell whether he was in the body, or out of the body at the time. It is well for us to imitate his example, and suspend our judgment, until the...

...this earth are those of St. Paul and St. John. St. Paul was caught up as far as the third heaven; but he could not tell whether he was in the body or out of the body: St. John says that he was " in the spirit;" as if he were not consciously in the body. The...

...from the apostle Paul's declared uncertainly, that when he received some of bis heavenly relations, he could not. tell whether he was in the body or out of the body.* The most natural allusion of the apostle here is to the intermediate and disembodied state....

...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....