The Apocalypse of Paul

The Vision of Heaven and Hell

The Apocalypse of Paul claims to record what Paul saw when he was “caught up to the third heaven” (2 Corinthians 12:2) — a vision he refused to describe in his letters. The text fills in the silence with extraordinary detail: heavenly geography, the weighing of souls, tours of paradise and hell, conversations with angels, the torment of various categories of sinners described with disturbing speci

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Edition021

FormatDigital PDF

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TraditionMystery Schools

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Context without the mythology.

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01 / Historical context

4th century. Condemned by Augustine and Jerome as the most mischievous of the apocryphal texts. Ordered destroyed 405 AD by imperial edict. Widely read anyway.

02 / Why it matters

An emperor ordered it destroyed. Ordinary readers kept copying it anyway.

From / associated with the text

““And I saw there an old man, and his face was like the sun, and his garments were white, and his throne was white as snow.””

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The Apocalypse of Paul

Context without the mythology.

Source before story.

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