ECB(i)
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PAULOS IN PARADISE
It is not beneficial for me to boast: indeed I come to visions and apocalypses of Adonay. 2 I knew a human in Messiah fourteen years ago; whether in body, I know not; whether out of the body, I know not: Elohim knows; such an one seized to the third heavens. 3 And I knew such a human, whether in body, whether out of the body, I know not; Elohim knows: 4 that he was seized into paradise and heard inexpressable rhemas not allowed for a human to speak. 5 Of such an one I boast: yet of myself I boast not - except in my frailties. 6 For whenever I will to boast, I become not thoughtless; for I say the truth; but I spare: lest anyone reckon me above what he sees me, or somewhat hears of me. 7
THE THORN OF PAULOS
And lest I be superciliously exalted through the excellence of the apocalypses, I was given a thorn in the flesh - an angel of Satan to punch me, lest I be superciliously exalted. Numbers 33:55, Joshua 23:13, Judges 2:3, Ezekiel El 28:24, Nahum 1:10 8 For this I besought Adonay thrice that it depart from me. 9 And he said to me, My charism is sufficient for you: for my dynamis is completed/shalamed in frailty. So rather, with pleasure I boast in my frailties, that the dynamis of the Messiah tabernacle upon me. 10 So I well-approve in frailties, in hubris, in compulsions, in persecutions, in distresses for sake of Messiah: for when I am frail, then I am able. 11 I become thoughtless in boasting; you compel me - for I am indebted: for I am behind in naught of the extremely superior apostles - though I am naught. 12 Indeed the signs of an apostle were worked in you in all endurance - in signs and omens and dynamis. 13 For wherein were you belittled beyond the rest of the ecclesiae? - unless I myself was not insensitive to you? Grant me charism for this injustice. 14
PAULOS PREPARES A THIRD VISIT
Behold, I prepare to come to you a third time; and I am not insensitive to you; for I seek not yours - but you: for the children are not indebted to treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children. 15 And with pleasure I spend and expend for your souls; though the more superabundantly I love you, the less I am loved. 16 And so be it, I overloaded you not: rather, being cunning, I took you with deceit. 17 Defrauded I you through any of them whom I apostolized to you? 18 I besought Titus and I apostolized a brother with him. Defrauded Titus you? Walked we not in the same spirit? - Not in the same tracks? 19
PAULOS WARNS THE ECCLESIA
Again, think you that we plead to you? We speak in sight of Elohim in Messiah: and beloved, all are to edify you. 20 For I awe, lest somehow, when I come, I find you not such as I willed and that you find me such as you had not willed: lest somehow there be contentions, zeals, furies, rivalries, slanders, whisperings, puffings, instabilities: 21 lest, when I come again, my Elohim humble me to you and that I mourn many who previously sinned and repented not of the impurity and whoredom and lechery they transacted.
PAULOS IN PARADISE
It is not beneficial for me to boast: indeed I come to visions and apocalypses of Adonay. 2 I knew a human in Messiah fourteen years ago; whether in body, I know not; whether out of the body, I know not: Elohim knows; such an one seized to the third heavens. 3 And I knew such a human, whether in body, whether out of the body, I know not; Elohim knows: 4 that he was seized into paradise and heard inexpressable rhemas not allowed for a human to speak. 5 Of such an one I boast: yet of myself I boast not - except in my frailties. 6 For whenever I will to boast, I become not thoughtless; for I say the truth; but I spare: lest anyone reckon me above what he sees me, or somewhat hears of me. 7
THE THORN OF PAULOS
And lest I be superciliously exalted through the excellence of the apocalypses, I was given a thorn in the flesh - an angel of Satan to punch me, lest I be superciliously exalted. Numbers 33:55, Joshua 23:13, Judges 2:3, Ezekiel El 28:24, Nahum 1:10 8 For this I besought Adonay thrice that it depart from me. 9 And he said to me, My charism is sufficient for you: for my dynamis is completed/shalamed in frailty. So rather, with pleasure I boast in my frailties, that the dynamis of the Messiah tabernacle upon me. 10 So I well-approve in frailties, in hubris, in compulsions, in persecutions, in distresses for sake of Messiah: for when I am frail, then I am able. 11 I become thoughtless in boasting; you compel me - for I am indebted: for I am behind in naught of the extremely superior apostles - though I am naught. 12 Indeed the signs of an apostle were worked in you in all endurance - in signs and omens and dynamis. 13 For wherein were you belittled beyond the rest of the ecclesiae? - unless I myself was not insensitive to you? Grant me charism for this injustice. 14
PAULOS PREPARES A THIRD VISIT
Behold, I prepare to come to you a third time; and I am not insensitive to you; for I seek not yours - but you: for the children are not indebted to treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children. 15 And with pleasure I spend and expend for your souls; though the more superabundantly I love you, the less I am loved. 16 And so be it, I overloaded you not: rather, being cunning, I took you with deceit. 17 Defrauded I you through any of them whom I apostolized to you? 18 I besought Titus and I apostolized a brother with him. Defrauded Titus you? Walked we not in the same spirit? - Not in the same tracks? 19
PAULOS WARNS THE ECCLESIA
Again, think you that we plead to you? We speak in sight of Elohim in Messiah: and beloved, all are to edify you. 20 For I awe, lest somehow, when I come, I find you not such as I willed and that you find me such as you had not willed: lest somehow there be contentions, zeals, furies, rivalries, slanders, whisperings, puffings, instabilities: 21 lest, when I come again, my Elohim humble me to you and that I mourn many who previously sinned and repented not of the impurity and whoredom and lechery they transacted.