2 Corinthians 12:3
And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
KJV
καὶ οἶδα τὸν τοιοῦτον ἄνθρωπον εἴτε ἐν σώματι εἴτε χωρὶς τοῦ σώματος οὐκ οἶδα, ὁ θεὸς οἶδεν
Greek NT
Et scio hujusmodi hominem sive in corpore, sive extra corpus nescio, Deus scit :
Vulgate
And I know such a man (whether in the body, or apart from the body, I know not; God knoweth),
ASV
And I know such a man (whether in the body, or out of the body, I know not: God knoweth):
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
εἴδω
eido
verb · 317×
εἴτε
eite
conjunction · 65×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
σῶμα
soma
noun · 141×
τοιοῦτος
toioutos
demonstrative · 57×
χωρίς
choris
adverb · 41×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: χωρὶς | WH/Treg/NIV: χωρὶς | RP: ἐκτὸς
- χωρὶς — SBLGNT
- χωρὶς — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἐκτὸς — Robinson-Pierpont
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Theophany
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
When Christ visited us in His grace, He did not come to what did not belong to Him: also, by shedding His true blood for us, and exhibiting to us His true flesh in the Eucharist, He conferred upon our flesh the capacity of salvation. 1. And vain likewise are those who say that God came to those things which did not belong to Him, as if covetous of another's property; in order t…
Is the soul of man carried away to things divine? Does rapture pertain to the cognitive or to the appetitive power? Did Paul when in rapture see the essence of God? Was he withdrawn from his senses? When in that state, was his soul was wholly separated from his body? What did he know, and what did he not know about this matter? Article 1. Whether the soul of man is carried away…
Cross-references
- 2Cor 12:2 — 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.
- Luke 23:43 — And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.