Commentary on the Epistles to the Corinthians John Calvin
Chapter
2 Corinthians 12:1-5
2 Corinthians 12:1-5 1. It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
1. Gloriari sane non expedit mihi: veniam enim ad visiones et revelatones Domini.
2. 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.
2. Novi hominem in Christo ante annos quatuordecim (sive in corpore, nescio: sive extra corpus, nescio, Deus novit) eiusmodi, inquam, hominem raptum fuisse usque in tertium coelum:
3. And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
3. Scio de eiusmodi homine (sive in corpore, nescio: sive extra corpus, nescio, Deus scit.)
4. How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
4. Quod raptus sit in Paradisum, et audierit verba ineffabilia, 1769 quae non licet 1770 homini loqui.
5. Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.
5. De eiusmodi homine gloriabor: de me ipso non gloriabor, nisi in infirmitatibus meis.
1. It is not expedient for me to glory Now, when as it were in the middle of the course, he restrains himself from proceeding farther, and in this way he most appropriately reproves the impudence of his rivals and declares that it is with reluctance, that he engages in this sort of contest with them. For what a shame it was to scrape together from every quarter commendations, or rather to go a-begging for them, that they might be on a level with so distinguished a man! As to the latter, he admonishes them by his own
1769"Parolles inenarrables, ou, qui ne se doyuent dire;" — "Words unutterable, or, that ought not to be spoken."
1770"Il n'est possible, ou loisible;" — "It is not possible, or lawful."