2 Corinthians 12:7 meaning and explanation

or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.

2 Corinthians 12:7, Berean Standard Bible

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Paul is defending his apostolic authority against rival teachers in Corinth. Here he continues speaking of himself in the third person about a heavenly vision received fourteen years earlier.

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