<p>12:4 <i>How he was caught up into Paradise- </i>See on :2 <i>Such a person was caught up to the third heaven</i>. Paul appears to equate paradise with &quot;the third heaven&quot;, but it's also feasible that he is describing two stages of exaltation; one to the third heaven, i.e. Heaven, and then further into &quot;paradise&quot;.</p><p><i>And heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter</i>- Alluding to how Moses saw the greatest visions of God of any man in the Old Testament; visions which he could not repeat; he only repeated the words of command which he was given. He did not tell Israel what he saw in Ex. 34. It could be that Paul is saying that what is heard in Paradise cannot be spoken on earth; or at least, cannot be articulated 'lawfully', in the terms of the Mosaic law. In this case, such visions are not really any confirmation of having Divine authority in one&rsquo;s message. Therefore the claims of the Jewish false teachers, and those of Paul, were equal on one level- but were unimportant, because their message was not going to be comprised of what they may or may not have heard in Paradise. Because what is heard there is &quot;unspeakable&quot;.</p>