 | Twenty-seven sermons - 1864 - 264 páginas
...unutterable glory to which he was destined as a believer in Jesus was so great, as to render necessary "a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan, to buffet him, lest he should be exalted above measure." Hence, again, we may learn how uniformly God works by means.... | |
 | John Cox Boyce - 1864 - 416 páginas
...dwelling. The case of St. Paul is an example of this with which we are familiar. When visited by ' ' a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him," he saw at once that an appeal against the tyrant's power and cruelty was open to him. Thrice he besought... | |
 | Gordon Calthrop - 1865 - 328 páginas
...of the revelations." And lest this should be so, there was "given to him," as he tells us himself, "a thorn in the flesh ; the messenger of Satan to buffet him." The calamity then — the suffering — was sent to St. Paul in wisdom and mercy. And now, taking with... | |
 | David Friedrich Strauss - 1865 - 474 páginas
...into the third heaven. " But that lest he should be exalted above measure, there had been given to him a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him." On reading these words, attacks of convulsion, perhaps of epilepsy, naturally occur to the mind, and... | |
 | David Friedrich Strauss - 1865 - 488 páginas
...into the third heaven. " But that lest he should be exalted above measure, there had been given to him a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him." On reading these words, attacks of convulsion, perhaps of epilepsy, naturally occur to the mind, and... | |
 | 1865 - 940 páginas
...downward into the mire of irritability. The ascent to the third heaven lets even the Apostle down to a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him. It is the temptation of natures in which the moral faculties predominate to overdo in the outward expression... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1866 - 296 páginas
...downward into the mire of irritability. The ascent to the third heaven lets even the Apostle down to a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him. It is the temptation of natures in which the moral faculties predominate to overdo in the outward expression... | |
 | William Gouge - 1866 - 408 páginas
...to bear the burden, and to free himself from it. Thus was Paul heard, when ' there was given to him a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him ;' and he prayed, and received this answer, ' My grace is sufficient for thee,' 2 Cor. xii. 7-9. This... | |
 | 390 páginas
...man's nature ; not as with Stephen, by the stones bearing down on him from the hand of man, but by a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him, he experiences the terrible fact that there is a door for Satan through his flesh, and that he requires... | |
 | 1867 - 788 páginas
...is not lawful for a man to utter. But scarcely had he returned to earth, e'er there was given to him a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him, lest he should be exalted above measure. Ho prayed for deliverance. Grace sufficient was given him,... | |
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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. 
