For, out of much tribulation and anguish of heart, wrote I unto you, through many tears, - not that ye might be grieved, but that, the love, ye might know, which I have very abundantly unto you.

But, until this day, whensoever Moses is read, a veil upon their heart, doth lie;

On every side, pressed hard, but not hemmed in, without a way, but not without a by-way,

Not again, ourselves, do we commend unto you, but as though an occasion we were giving unto you - something to boast of, in our behalf; that ye may have something suited unto them who, in appearance, are boasting, and not in heart.

Our mouth, is opened unto you, O Corinthians! our heart, hath become enlarged:

Thanks, however, unto God! - who is putting the same earnestness in your behalf in the heart of Titus,

Each one, according as he hath purposed in his heart, not sorrowfully, nor of necessity, - for, a cheerful giver, God, loveth.

How that he was caught away into paradise, and heard unspeakable things, which it is not allowable for a man to utter: