For if I wanted to boast, I wouldn’t be a fool, because I would be telling the truth. But I refrain, so that no one will think more of me than what he sees in me or hears from me, and because of the immeasurable greatness of the revelations. Therefore, so that I would not exalt myself, I was given a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I would not exalt myself.