Into Paradise (εις παραδεισον). See on Lu 23:43 for this interesting word. Paul apparently uses paradise as the equivalent of the …

Into paradise. The word paradise (paradeison) occurs only three times in the New Testament: Luke 23:43;[Reference Reve…

That he was caught up into paradise.—The stress laid on this second vision hinders us from thinking of it as identical wi…

None of the visions recorded in Acts can be identified with the one related here, since it occurred fourteen years before the time of writing—i.e.,…

In paradise. As every region that is especially agreeable and delightful is called in the Scriptures the garden of God, from this…

How that he was caught up into paradise
Not the earthly paradise in which our first parents were; this was destroyed…

There can be no doubt the apostle speaks of himself. Whether heavenly things were brought down to him while his body was in a trance, as in the cas…

Having spoken of the first rapture, the Apostle now speaks of a second one. He first mentions the rapture itself, and second, its excellence ([Refe…