 | Benson Bailey - 1877 - 644 pagina’s
...should, through the abundance of the revelation, have been exalted above measure, there was given to him a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him. And how did the apostle act in this distressing situation ? " For this thing." he says, " I besought... | |
 | Frederick Harper - 1879 - 406 pagina’s
...Lord Jesus Christ. It was not the prospect of the death of this body. Then again we are told he had a thorn in the flesh — the messenger of Satan to buffet him. I do not know what it was ; but I am quite sure it was not the thorn in the flesh that made him say... | |
 | David Thomas K. Drummond - 1879 - 688 pagina’s
...he should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given him ' a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him.' So great is the danger that, in such times as these, the very loving gifts of the Lord may become our... | |
 | Frederick Harper - 1879 - 406 pagina’s
...Lord Jesus Christ. It was not the prospect of the death of this body. Then again we are told he had a thorn in the flesh— the messenger of Satan to buffet him. I do not know what it was ; but I am quite sure it was not the thorn in the flesh that made him say:... | |
 | James White, Ellen Gould Harmon White - 1880 - 432 pagina’s
...with pride in spiritual things, and were Satan's easy prey. If it was necessary that Paul should have a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him, lest he become exalted through the abundance of revelations with which he was favored, it is a reasonable... | |
 | John Bate - 1881 - 574 pagina’s
...all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work. — 2 Cor. ix. 8. The Apostle Paul had a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him, and he besought the Lord thrice that it might depart from him. And He said unto him, My grace is sufficient... | |
 | rev. William Jones - 1881 - 210 pagina’s
...caught up into Paradise " and there received " abundance of revelations;" but there was given to him " a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet " him. This incompleteness of our joys here is a wise and kind arrangement. We need the shadow as well as... | |
 | F. C. Blyth - 1881 - 402 pagina’s
..."unspeakable words which it is not lawful for a man to utter ; " but there is forthwith sent to him " a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan, to buffet him, lest he should be exalted above measure" (2 Cor. xii. 2 — 7). So, after receiving God's assurance... | |
 | Jean Nicolas Grou - 1881 - 278 pagina’s
...in danger of being "exalted above measure through the abundance of revelations, "so that he needed "a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him, "how much more such as we are ? 1 a Cor. xii. 9. Detachment A HOLY man of old summed up the interior... | |
 | Isaac Gregory Smith, Phipps Onslow - 1883 - 394 pagina’s
...health and almost unremitting pain, like the apostle who was " in labours more abundant," and yet had " a thorn in the flesh," "the messenger of Satan to buffet him." He was unsparing of such slender means as he possessed. His personal income, aided by the ,£60 or... | |
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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. 
