 | Thomas Manton - 1845 - 624 pages
...it, God hath a quarrel against it. When Paul was puffed up, when the bladder was swollen, God sent him a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him, lest he should be exalted above measure (2 Cor. xii. 7). Possibly it was some eminent affliction; but... | |
 | William Beveridge - 1845 - 466 pages
...supernatural grace and virtue. A remarkable instance whereof we have in St. Paul, who having got " a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him," and not being able to bear it by his own strength, he addressed himself to Christ by prayer, Who gave him... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1846 - 424 pages
...safe. He who was caught up into the third heaven, lest he should be " lifted up," had also sent unto him " a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him." Let us therefore leave all, even our prayers, in God's hand. Let us not seek high things for ourselves,... | |
 | Moses Stuart - 1846 - 394 pages
...religion, viz, invocation upon Jesus, which separated them from all others. The same Paul, when he had a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him, besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from him.'1 Here the context makes it quite certain,... | |
 | Robert Haldane - 1847 - 780 pages
...were upon the earth, and had he no sins to mortify ? And why was it necessary for the Lord to send him a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him, to curb the pride of his nature, and prevent him from being exalted above measure, had it not been... | |
 | 1847 - 780 pages
...brother Paul also found many great and heavy trials ; but that which gave him great distress was " a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him :" 3 Cor. xii. 7. Others have had trials of cruel mockings, and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds... | |
 | Saint Augustine (of Hippo) - 1850 - 516 pages
...not? The greater his love, the greater were his wounds from the sins of others. He indeed had received a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan, to buffet him. Behold in what way God was forgiving unto him, punishing all his affections. What aie the affections,... | |
 | Henry Edward Manning - 1848 - 426 pages
...safe. He who was caught up into the third heaven, lest he should be " lifted up," had also sent unto him " a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him." Let us therefore leave all, even our prayers, in God's hand. Let us not seek high things for ourselves,... | |
 | Henry Edward Manning - 1848 - 320 pages
...safe. He who was caught up into the third heaven, lest he should be " lifted up," had also sent unto him " a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him." Let us therefore leave all, even our prayers, in God's hand. Let us not seek high things for ourselves,... | |
 | John Mitchell Mason - 1849 - 616 pages
...wretched man that I am ! who shafl deliver me from the body of this death ; and of the latter, where there was given to him a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him: with respect to both, most, if not all believers, are sooner or later, his companions in tribulation.... | |
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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. 
