The account of a remarkable vision granted to the apostle, vs. 1-6. The other evidences of his apostleship, and his conduct and purooses in the exercise of his office, vs. 7-21.
PauVs revelations and visions.
He would give over boasting, and refer not to what he had done, but to what God had done ; not to scenes in which he was the agent, but to those in which he was merely the sub- ject— to revelations and visions. He had been caught up to the third heavens, and received communications and revela- tions which he was not permitted to make known. This was to him, and to all who believed his word, a more reliable evi- dence of the favour of God to him as an apostle than any thing he had yet mentioned, vs. 1-6. With this extraordinary proof of the divine favour there was given him some painful bodily aftection, from which he could not be delivered, in order to