Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Into Paradise (eiv paradeison). See on Luke 23:43 for this interesting word. Paul apparently uses paradise as the equivalent of the third heaven in verse II Corinthians 12:2. Some Jews (Book of the Secrets of Enoch, chapter viii) make Paradise in the third heaven. The rabbis had various ideas (two heavens, three, seven). We need not commit Paul to any "celestial gradation" (Vincent).
Unspeakable words (arrhta rhmata). Old verbal adjective (a privative, rhtov from rew), only here in N.T.
Not lawful (ouk econ). Copula estin omitted. Hence Paul does
not give these words.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 2 Corinthians 12:4:
Luke 23:43
1 Corinthians 14:19
2 Corinthians 5:13
1 Thessalonians 5:19
Revelation 2:7
Revelation 10:4
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