 | William Henry Havergal, Arthur John Macleane - 1856 - 66 pagina’s
...he should be exalted above measure, there was given him some special trial, some bodily infirmity, a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him ; and though he besought the Lord thrice that it might depart from him such was not the will of his... | |
 | George Edward Lynch Cotton (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1858 - 218 pagina’s
...feel for us in everything, and therefore in everything we may claim His help; nor is there any trouble which we may not ask Him to remove. Only we shall...My strength is sufficient for thee, for my strength is made perfect in weakness. ° 0 2 Cor. xii. 7—9. III. But we have a yet higher example to teach... | |
 | Daniel Harvey Hill - 1858 - 292 pagina’s
...meet to be called an apostle," "less than the least of all saints;" and yet Paul had given to him, "a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him," lest he should be filled with pride and self-conceit. THE GOLDEN RULE. "Therefore all things whatsoever... | |
 | 1859 - 258 pagina’s
...favoured with extraordinary "visions and revelations of the Lord," in 41 the third heaven," he needed " a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet" him down here, "lest he should be exalted above measure." From this we learn, very plainly, that "visions... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1862 - 832 pagina’s
...account which the Apostle Paul has given us, in 2 Cor. xii. 7, of the trial which came upon him, in what he calls " a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him, lest he should be exalted above measure ;" he goes on further to state, I. The refuge to which lie... | |
 | Thomas Jackson - 1862 - 424 pagina’s
...above measure through the abundance of the revelations " vouchsafed to him, there was given to him " a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him, lest he should be exalted above measure." This case of personal discipline was deemed so necessary,... | |
 | Thomas OSBORN (Wesleyan Minister.) - 1862 - 222 pagina’s
...buffetings of his spiritual foes. This might have been expected. If the "great Apostle" had given to him " a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet" him, " lest he should be exalted above measure," it is not surprising that our young friend, in witnessing... | |
 | Seneca William Winter - 1864 - 88 pagina’s
...of God is truly sanctified. Take, by way of illustration, the case of St. Paul. He was not without a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan, to buffet him. What it was we know not, but one thing we do know — viz., that he besought the Lord thrice that it... | |
 | Twenty-seven sermons - 1864 - 264 pagina’s
...unutterable glory to which he was destined as a believer in Jesus was so great, as to render necessary "a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan, to buffet him, lest he should be exalted above measure." Hence, again, we may learn how uniformly God works by means.... | |
 | John Cox Boyce - 1864 - 416 pagina’s
...dwelling. The case of St. Paul is an example of this with which we are familiar. When visited by ' ' a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him," he saw at once that an appeal against the tyrant's power and cruelty was open to him. Thrice he besought... | |
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lest he should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to him a thorn in th-e flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him, lest he should be exalted above measure. 
