 | Samuel Penny - 1854 - 470 pages
...exalted above measure, through the abundance of the visions and revelations of the Lord, there was given him a " thorn in the flesh," the messenger of Satan, to buffet him. It is impossible for us to know what this peculiar affliction of the Apostle was ; but we know that... | |
 | Robert Sanderson - 1854 - 432 pages
...""' ''''" above measure through the abundance of revelations, k that it was needful he should have a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him, lest he should be exalted above measure. [No marvel then, if these new converts, but lately called... | |
 | Robert Sanderson - 1854 - 458 pages
...exalted "'' '"' above measure through the abundance of revelations, k that it was needful he should have a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him, lest he should be exalted above measure. [No marvel then, if these new converts, but lately called... | |
 | 1855 - 786 pages
...but, lest he should be exalted above measure, through the abundance of revelations, there was given him a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him. For this thing he " besought the Lord thrice," — a definite number probably put for an indefinite,... | |
 | Wesleyan pulpit - 1855 - 652 pages
...he " should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given unto him a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him." These are a few illustrations of the afflictions endured by that " great multitude, which no man could... | |
 | William Henry Havergal, Arthur John Macleane - 1856 - 66 pages
...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 Father,... | |
 | 1857 - 788 pages
...Lord gives us a memorable instance of the certainty of this tendency by sending the apostle Paul " a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan, to buffet him, lest he should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations given to him." What... | |
 | Daniel Harvey Hill - 1858 - 292 pages
...apostles, not 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... | |
 | George Edward Lynch Cotton (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1858 - 218 pages
...according to His own directions. We shall remember that when St. Paul was troubled by what he calls' a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him, that is, some secret vexation which interfered with his happiness, and undivided attention to God's... | |
 | 1859 - 258 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
