 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.  The Review of Reviews - Page 23edited by - 1896Full view - About this book
 | Robert Calef - 1823 - 312 pages
...blessed angels, but the evil ones, in it, as 2 Cor. xii. 7, And lest I should be exalted above m< asure, there was given to. me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of satan to buffet me. 1 Sam. xvi. 14, 15 & 23, dm evil spirit from the Lord troubled him, &c. It IK a great truth, that we... | |
 | William Paley - 1823
...infirmity : " Lest I should be exalted," says he, " above measure, through the abundance of revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buifet me." Thus then, in both epistles, the notice of his infirmity is suited to the place in which... | |
 | William Paley - 1823
...above measure, through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thornin thejlesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And he said... | |
 | 1824 - 429 pages
...heareth of me. 7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. 8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. 9 And he... | |
 | William Paley - 1824
...lest I should be exalte-l above measure, through the abundance of the revelations, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure." After what you have heard, you will not wonder, that this same St. Paul should pronounce... | |
 | John L. Locke - 1824 - 493 pages
...fire, and will refine them as silver. — Zech. xiii. 9. Lest I should be exalted above measure, &c. there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan, to buffet me. — 2 Cor. xii. 7. III. To make them remember God, and things above ; to look to, own them, and close... | |
 | 1824
...were struck dead by the • 1 Cor. v. 3—5. f " When St. Paul says of himself, (t Cor. xii. 7.) ' there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan, to buffet me,' we may also interpret his words as implying some bodily disease. It was Satan who was allowed to tempt... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 349 pages
...lest I should be exalted above measure-, through the abundance of the revelations, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exJtcll above measure." After what you have heard, you will not wonder, that this same St. Paul should... | |
 | John L. Locke - 1824 - 493 pages
...fire, and will refine them as silver. — Zech. xiii. 9. Lest I should be exalted above measure, &c. there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan, to buffet me. — 2 Cor. xii. 7. III. To mahe them remember God, and things above ; to look to, own them, and close... | |
 | William Paley - 1824
...infirmity : "Lest I should he exalted," says he, "ahove measure, through the ahundance of revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to huffet me." s " Would lo God you would hear with me a little in my folly, iind indeed hear with me... | |
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