What was Paul’s thorn in the flesh?
Apostle’s dramatic examples linked to humility remain mysterious
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Does it matter what the apostle Paul was talking about when he wrote about his thorn in the flesh? Not really; we can understand the point he was making without knowing that detail. But Christians have speculated about the nature of the thorn ever since personal knowledge about Paul’s life f…