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- From: "Revd Dr Sean F. Winter" <sean.winter AT northern.org.uk>
- To: <corpus-paul AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Corpus-Paul] Thorn in the Flesh
- Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:34:38 +0100
Dear Sean,
>There is an Oxford DPhil by Paula Gooder, supervised by Chris
>Rowland which argues that the thorn in the flesh is that Paul only
>gets to the edge of the 3rd heaven. John Ashton refers to it in his
>book on the Religion of Paul the Apostle, and there are also
>articles in JSJ by Chris Morray-Jones which argue the same point. I
>don't have details to hand I am afraid, but Ashton's book will give
>the necessary references.
HH: If Paul did not know whether he was in the body or outside the
body when he went to the third heaven (2 Cor 12:2), how could he be
sure that reaching only the edge of it was a thorn in his flesh?
Yours,
Harold Holmyard
Harold
You will have to ask those who make the case. My post gives no indication
that it is a view that I wish to support.
Sean
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Re: [Corpus-Paul] Thorn in the flesh,
Willie van Niekerk, 10/10/2005
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [Corpus-Paul] Thorn in the Flesh, Revd Dr Sean F. Winter, 10/11/2005
- Re: [Corpus-Paul] Thorn in the Flesh, Harold R. Holmyard III, 10/11/2005
- Re: [Corpus-Paul] Thorn in the Flesh, Revd Dr Sean F. Winter, 10/13/2005
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