 | 1892 - 718 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... | |
 | John Garnier - 1895 - 538 pagina’s
...that he was the meekest man in all the earth (Num. xii. 3) ; while Paul tells us that he was given ' a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him, lest he should be lifted up by the abundance of revelations ' (2 Cor. xii. 7); while constant experience... | |
 | Reuben Archer Torrey - 1895 - 88 pagina’s
..."lest he be exalted above measure, through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to ( him) a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet (him), lest (he) should be exalted above measure." ( 2 Cor. xii:7). How many men have failed here! They have... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1896 - 490 pagina’s
...downward into the mire of irritability. The ascent to the third heaven lets even the Apostle down to a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him. It is the temptation of natures in which the moral faculties predominate to overdo in the outward expression... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1896 - 492 pagina’s
...downward into the mire of irritability. The ascent to the third heaven lets even the Apostle down to a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him. It is the temptation of natures in which the moral faculties predominate to overdo in the outward expression... | |
 | George Augustus Lofton - 1898 - 468 pagina’s
...in Job, he met it also in Paul; for it seemed as if God let him sift Paul most of his life. He had a " thorn in the flesh," the " messenger of Satan," to "buffet him;" and how much trouble it gave Paul we shall never know until we see him in heaven. Besides all this,... | |
 | Orello Cone - 1898 - 504 pagina’s
...under orders which he is not to exceed. Accordingly, when Paul says that there " was given " to him " a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet " him, he doubtless conceived the affliction as of divine appointment and as effected by Satan, as whose messenger... | |
 | 1814 - 1018 pagina’s
...debilitated that he must be carried to the rich man's gate. The great Apostle of the Gentiles must have a " thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him." The infirmities of the body damp the energies of the mind, and while in "this tabernacle we groan,... | |
 | Levi Rightmyer - 1916 - 990 pagina’s
...utter, and lest he should be exalted above measure because of these revelations, there was given him . and although he besought the Lord thrice that this might be taken from him, he was refused saying,... | |
 | Alma White - 1917 - 202 pagina’s
...one sense, until he had finished his work. He states also in 2 Corinthians 12: 7, that he was given a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan, to buffet him, lest he should be exalted above measure. This thorn was given on account of his abundant revelations.... | |
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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. 
