 | Wesleyan pulpit - 1855 - 652 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1855 - 786 páginas
...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,... | |
 | William Henry Havergal, Arthur John Macleane - 1856 - 66 páginas
...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... | |
 | Daniel Harvey Hill - 1858 - 292 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | Thomas Jackson - 1862 - 424 páginas
...above measure through the abundance of the revelations " vouchsafed to him, there was given to him " a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him, lest he should be exalted above measure." This case of personal discipline was deemed so necessary,... | |
 | Thomas OSBORN (Wesleyan Minister.) - 1862 - 222 páginas
...buffetings of his spiritual foes. This might have been expected. If the "great Apostle" had given to him " a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet" him, " lest he should be exalted above measure," it is not surprising that our young friend, in witnessing... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1862 - 832 páginas
...the Apostle Paul has given us, in 2 Cor. xii. 7, of the trial which came upon him, in what he calls " a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him, lest he should be exalted above measure ;" he goes on further to state, I. The refuge to which lie... | |
 | Seneca William Winter - 1864 - 88 páginas
...of God is truly sanctified. Take, by way of illustration, the case of St. Paul. He was not without a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan, to buffet him. What it was we know not, but one thing we do know — viz., that he besought the Lord thrice that it might... | |
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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. 
