2 CORINTHIANS 12:7 — KING JAMES VERSION 1
“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.”
To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given to me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me — this is the *crux* of Paul's theology of *weakness*. A *skolops tē sarki*, thorn/stake in flesh, (*skolops* = splinter, stake driven into wood) was *didōmi*, given, to him. The *doulóphoros*, torture is from a *angelos Satana*, messenger of Satan. Yet God *permitted* this *affliction*.