| 1836 - 400 páginas
...that, lest he should be exalted above measure through the abundance of revelation, there was given him a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan, to buffet him, lest he should be exalted above measure. He must have something to keep down pride. Brethren, let us... | |
| Daniel Wilson - 1837 - 484 páginas
...should be " exalted by the abundance of the revelations," there was sent unto him, what he terms, " a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan, to buffet him." adequate for his sustentation under the discipline ; and that the strength of his Savior would be the... | |
| Samuel Ransom - 1837 - 224 páginas
...temptation we have on record is that of Paul. It is recorded in 2 Cor. xii. 7, and is designated by him, "a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him ;" and the object of it is declared by him to have been, "lest he should be exalted above measure through... | |
| William Davis Snodgrass - 1841 - 124 páginas
...Letter to the Corinthians, that his tendency to spiritual pride was such, that there was given to him " a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him." And who can believe, that the sharp contention between him and Barnabas would ever have occurred, if... | |
| William Beveridge - 1843 - 474 páginas
...an abuse of it; but lest he should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelation, there was given a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him, lest he should be " exalted 2 Cor. i2.7. above measure." What this thorn in the flesh, this messenger... | |
| 1860
...spell is broken. After the apostle Paul had been admitted to the heavenly vision, he was troubled with a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him. Nothing could have been more blissful than the feelings of the disconsolate disciples journeying to... | |
| Plain sermons - 1844 - 768 páginas
...though I had already attained, either were already perfect;" and elsewhere he tells us that he had a " thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him;" and he was obliged to " bruise his body and bring it into subjection, lest, after he had preached to... | |
| 1879 - 824 páginas
...reason of this special favour shown to him ho " should be exalted above measure," there was given to him a thorn in the flesh., the messenger of Satan, to buffet him. The trial of the apostle was " a thorn in the flesh." What that was no one can determine. To state... | |
| Thomas Manton - 1845 - 624 páginas
...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... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 202 páginas
...needed the sore buffets of the Adversary, or something equivalent, to humble him ; just as unto Paul was given a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan, to preserve him from being exalted by the abundance of the revelations made unto him. But for whatever... | |
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