Visions and Revelations of the Lord (2 Corinthians 12:1-10)

Abstract

This chapter reproduces Margaret's translation with brief glosses summarizing her own interpretations, taken from her exegesis; and will append a series of questions which are raised by this exposition. Paul is not standing for this sort of moral blackmail, so he makes a virtue of colorlessness of his friend's experience. Even in 1 Corinthians there are signs that other groups are appealing to visions of God, and that Paul is resistant to this. In eh. 2 they claim to have certain knowledge. Paul responds to criticism with what looks like the standard beginning of a vision of the Glory of God on the Throne. The Jewish Christians of 11:22 are a group, and Paul writes his Second Epistle as from himself and Timothy, while repeatedly associating himself with Titus. In time the Pauline movement came simply to exclude all such visions by definition: no one can see God ever. Keywords: Jewish Christians; Margaret's translation; Pauline movement

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