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Into Paradise (eis paradeison). See note on Luk 23:43 for this interesting word. Paul apparently uses paradise as the equivalent of the third heaven in 2Co 12:2. Some Jews (Book of the Secrets of Enoch, chapter viii) make Paradise in the third heaven. The rabbis had various ideas (two heavens, three, seven). We need not commit Paul to any “celestial gradation” (Vincent).
Unspeakable words (arrēta rēmata). Old verbal adjective (a privative, rētos from reō), only here in N.T.
Not lawful (ouk exon). Copula estin omitted. Hence Paul does not give these words.