 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.  The Works... - Page 73by William Paley - 1824Full view - About this book
 | John Locke - Philosophy - 1823
...lest I should be exalted above measure, through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to...buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. PARAPHRASE. 1 If I must be forced to glory " for your sakes ; (for me it is not expedient) I will come... | |
 | William Paley - 1823
...and then proceeds to describe a particular instance, and afterward adds, "lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given me a thorn in the flesh." Upon the whole, the matter admits of no softening qualification, or ambiguity whatever. If St. Paul... | |
 | John Locke - Bible - 1823 - 455 pages
...lest I should be exalted above measure, through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should he exalted above measure. PARAPHRASE. '. 1 If I mnst be forced to glory •' for your sakes ; (for... | |
 | Robert Calef - Witchcraft - 1823 - 312 pages
...evil ones, in it, as 2 Cor. xii. 7, And lest I should be exalted above m< asure, there was given to. me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of satan to buffet me. 1 Sam. xvi. 14, 15 & 23, dm evil spirit from the Lord troubled him, &c. It IK a great truth, that we... | |
 | John Locke - Philosophy - 1823
...above measure, through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the Hesh/the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. PARAPHRASE. 2 Lord. I knew a man b , by the power of Christ, above fourteen years ago, caught up into... | |
 | John Locke - Philosophy, Modern - 1823
...through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh,' the meseenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. PARAPHRASE. 1 If I must be forced to glory a for your sakes ; (for me it is not expedient) I will come... | |
 | William Paley - Sermons, English - 1824 - 349 pages
...myself I Ğrill not glory, " but in mine infirmities." Then he goes on, " lest I should be exalted above measure-, through the abundance of the revelations,...messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exJtcll above measure." After what you have heard, you will not wonder, that this same St. Paul should... | |
 | Bible - 1824 - 429 pages
...lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to...buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. 8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. 9 And he said unto me, My... | |
 | John Locke - 1824
...And that I might not be exalted above measure, by reason of the abundance of revelations that I had, there was given me a thorn in the flesh .]:, the messenger of Satan to buffet NOTES. and by the Syriae, much to the same purpose ; and suiting better with the context, renders the... | |
 | John L. Locke - Bible - 1824 - 493 pages
...refine them as silver. — Zech. xiii. 9. Lest I should be exalted above measure, &c. there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan, to buffet me. — 2 Cor. xii. 7. III. To mahe them remember God, and things above ; to look to, own them, and close... | |
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