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Paul » Has "a thorn in the flesh,"
So to keep me from being too much elated a bitter physical affliction was sent to me, a very messenger of Satan, to harass me, to keep me from being too much elated. Three times I have prayed to the Lord about this, begging that it might leave me, and he said to me, "My favor is enough for you, for only where there is weakness is perfect strength developed." So I am perfectly willing to boast of all my weakness, so that the strength of Christ may shelter me.
though you know that it was because of an illness that I preached the good news to you that first time; and yet what must have tried you in my physical condition, you did not scorn and despise, but you welcomed me like an angel of God, like Christ Jesus himself.
Paul's » Voyage to rome - with luke, aristarchus, and others ac 27-28 » Thorn
So to keep me from being too much elated a bitter physical affliction was sent to me, a very messenger of Satan, to harass me, to keep me from being too much elated.
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though you know that it was because of an illness that I preached the good news to you that first time;
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