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For if I do wish to boast I will not be foolish, for I will be speaking the truth; but I refrain from this, so that noone will credit me with morethan he sees in me orhears from me.
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Because of the surpassinggreatness of the revelations, for thisreason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me-to keep me from exalting myself!