How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
Of such an one will I glory; yet of myself I will not glory. He speaks of himself when caught up and in his ordinary state as two different persons, so as not to be thought vain-glorious (Å’cumenius).
But in mine infirmities. My calamities, my sufferings. By a common Hebrew metonymy "infirmity" is here put for "grief." They are related as cause and effect or effect and cause. Cf. ver9; Micah 4:10. In Isaiah 53:3, we read of Christ that He should be "a Man of sorrows and acquainted with infirmity" (Vulg.). Cf. also Psalm 16:4 (Vulg.).
