..."unspeakable words which it is not lawful for a man to utter ; " but there is forthwith sent to him " a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan, to buffet him, lest he should be exalted above measure" (2 Cor. xii. 2 — 7). So, after receiving God's assurance...

...health and almost unremitting pain, like the apostle who was " in labours more abundant," and yet had " a thorn in the flesh," "the messenger of Satan to buffet him." He was unsparing of such slender means as he possessed. His personal income, aided by the ,£60 or...

...caught up into Paradise " and there received "abundance of revelations;" but there was given to him "a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet" him. This incompleteness of our joys here is a wise and kind arrangement. We need the shadow as well as...

...said of Moses that he was the meekest man in all the earth (Num. xii. 3) ; while Paul tells us that he was given ' a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him, lest he should be lifted up by the abundance of revelations ' (2 Cor. xii. 7); while constant experience...

..."lest he be exalted above measure, through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to ( him) a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet (him), lest (he) should be exalted above measure." ( 2 Cor. xii:7). How many men have failed here! They have...

...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...

...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...

...under orders which he is not to exceed. Accordingly, when Paul says that there " was given " to him " a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet " him, he doubtless conceived the affliction as of divine appointment and as effected by Satan, as whose messenger...

...in Job, he met it also in Paul; for it seemed as if God let him sift Paul most of his life. He had a " thorn in the flesh," the " messenger of Satan," to "buffet him;" and how much trouble it gave Paul we shall never know until we see him in heaven. Besides all this,...

...debilitated that he must be carried to the rich man's gate. The great Apostle of the Gentiles must have a " thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him." The infirmities of the body damp the energies of the mind, and while in "this tabernacle we groan,...