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God's Better 'Yes'
Commentators explain that God's response to Paul was not to remove the 'thorn' but to provide something better: His all-sufficient grace. This teaches that when God seems to deny a prayer for relief, He is often providing a deeper blessing—His own sustaining power. As Matthew Henry notes, God sometimes denies a request in love.
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2 Corinthians
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Albert Barnes
On 2 Corinthians 12:9
18th Century
Theologian
And He said to me. The Savior replied. Paul does not inform us in what way this was done, or whether it was done at the time when the pray…
AT Robertson
On 2 Corinthians 12:9
He hath said (ειρηκεν). Perfect active indicative, as if a final word. Paul probably still has the thorn in his flesh and needs th…
Charles Ellicott
On 2 Corinthians 12:9
19th Century
Bishop
And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you.—The words fit, more or less, with each of the two views previously dis…
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 2 Corinthians 12:9
The answer to Paul’s prayer did not take the form he had expected. The thorn remained, but so did his recollection of the divine reply. In the dist…
John Calvin
On 2 Corinthians 12:9
16th Century
Theologian
He said to me. It is not certain whether he received this answer by a special revelation, and it is not very important. For God answers us…
John Gill
On 2 Corinthians 12:9
17th Century
Pastor
And he said unto me
Either by what the Jews call (lwq) (tb) …
Matthew Henry
On 2 Corinthians 12:7–10
17th Century
Minister
The apostle gives an account of the method God took to keep him humble, and to prevent his being lifted up above measure, on account of the visions…