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1 ( 2 d) Doutles, it is not expedient for me to boast, I wyll come to visyons and reuelacions of the Lord,
3 I knowe a man in Christ aboue fourtene yeares ago (whyther he were in the body, I cannot tell, or whyther he were out of the body, I cannot tell, God knoweth) howe that he was taken vp into the thyrde heauen.
4 And I knowe the same man (whither in the body or out of the body, I cannot tell, God knoweth)
5 howe that he was taken vp into Paradyse, and hearde secret wordes, which no man can vtter.
6 Of thys man wyll I boast, but of my selfe wyll I not boast, except it be of myne infirmityes
7 For though I wolde boast, I shall not be a foole: for I wolde saye the trueth. Neuerthelesse, I spare you: lest any man shulde thinke of me, aboue that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.
8 And lest I shulde be exalted out of measure thorowe the excellencye of the reuelacions: there was gyuen vnto me vnquyetnes thorowe the flesshe, euen the messenger of Satan to buffet me, because I shulde not be exalted out of measure.
9 For this thynge besought I the Lorde thryse, that it might departe from me.