“And that I should not be exalted by the abundance of revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I should not be exalted beyond measure” - 2 Corinthians 12:7, (KJV). To help better understand how other translations translate the beginning of this verse, they say, “To keep me from becoming presumptuous.” We Christians, human beings living on God's earth, truly love attention, recognition, and praise. In the above mentioned scripture we have here, Paul has been given a special gift where he can receive revelations from God. In his revelation Paul receives a thorn in the flesh. There is much speculation as to what the thorn was; we'll delve into this a little later in the document. The focus for now will be on Paul's humiliation and how this passage of Scripture begins. I think we often forget this point. The point is that we focus on the plug and, oh, how we hypothesize what it was. If you look at the beginning of the verse “at least, I should be exalted or conceited beyond measure,” it clearly shows Paul, in humble worship. In his writings, he often made it very clear that he was not doing or could not do anything, but it was always about Christ. What a lesson for Christians today if we could “consider that there will be thorns in the way” (Gleanings from the Corinthian Letters), yet it is Christ. Christ himself was not presumptuous or proud, and his model should be emulated. However, the rhetoric that Paul follows here is the model of Christ in complete recognition of giving himself completely. We will remember in the verse preceding this that Paul reiterates his humility by diverting all attention... half of the paper. .....in his guise. I think of my dear sister, I think of Paul, handicapped in some shape or form, but both continued to serve, giving God all they had. Works Cited AMG International, Inc. The Hebrew-Greek Key Word Study Bible, King James Version, 1984, revised edition 1991.Brown Trail Church of Christ. Gleanings from the Corinthian Letters, 36th Annual Fort Worth Conference, 90-93. Brown Trail Church of Christ, 2013.Stapleton, Robert. Class notes, I and II Corinthians. Robert Stapleton.Jackson, Bill. A commentary on Second Corinthians. Bill Jackson.Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. Merriam-Webster's Scholastic Dictionary. Merriam-Webster, Incorporated, 2004.Christ, South Side Church of. “A thorn in the flesh”. South Side Christ Church. October 10, 2010. http://www.southsidechurchofchrist.com/sermons/a-thorn-in-the-flesh.html (accessed March 03, 2014).