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afterwards fell into an error and misled many of the believers.
That Paul does not reveal the identity of the person seen
by him in the vision, and that the words which he heard in
Paradise "cannot be spoken and no man is permitted to speak
them," shows that Paul was not himself the person who was
taken up to Heaven. To say that Paul, for reason of humility
and out of modesty, does not praise himself is simply to mis-
represent Paul. He boasts of having rebuked St. Peter to his
face, and his epistles are full of expressions about himself
which do rather confirm the idea that Paul was neither humble
nor modest.
Besides, we know from his writings to the Galatians and
the Romans what a prejudiced Jew he was against Hagar and
her son Ishmael. The glorious person he saw in his vision
could be no other than the person seen by Daniel! It was
That Paul does not reveal the identity of the person seen
by him in the vision, and that the words which he heard in
Paradise "cannot be spoken and no man is permitted to speak
them," shows that Paul was not himself the person who was
taken up to Heaven. To say that Paul, for reason of humility
and out of modesty, does not praise himself is simply to mis-
represent Paul. He boasts of having rebuked St. Peter to his
face, and his epistles are full of expressions about himself
which do rather confirm the idea that Paul was neither humble
nor modest.
Besides, we know from his writings to the Galatians and
the Romans what a prejudiced Jew he was against Hagar and
her son Ishmael. The glorious person he saw in his vision
could be no other than the person seen by Daniel! It was