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2 Corinthians 12:7

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.

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Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220

But what will excite my surprise still more is the case (next supposed by Marcion), that a God so good and gracious, and so averse to blows and cruelty, should have suborned the angel Satan-not his own either, but the Creator's-"to buffet "the apostle. As he writes to his Timotheus. "But withal himself says that `a stake. Or the design is to humble, as the apostle tells us, that there was given him a stake, the messenger of Satan, to buffet him;

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