 | Moses Stuart - 1846 - 394 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1846 - 424 páginas
...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,... | |
 | 1847 - 780 páginas
...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... | |
 | Robert Haldane - 1847 - 780 páginas
...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... | |
 | Saint Augustine (of Hippo) - 1850 - 516 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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,... | |
 | James Foote - 1849 - 698 páginas
...for the destruction of the flesh:" and he describes a certain trial, which was sent on himself, as " a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan, to buffet him." Several of the maladies which Christ miraculously cured, are ascribed to the agency Satan; and this... | |
 | John Mitchell Mason - 1849 - 616 páginas
...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.... | |
 | William Raymond Weeks - 1849 - 552 páginas
...which doth so easily beset us," as though he was not yet completely delivered from it. And he needed " 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 " he had received... | |
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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. 
