3. I know such a man (whether in the body or outside of the body I don’t know—God knows)—
4. he was caught up into Paradise and heard words too sacred to tell, which a human is not permitted to utter.
5. On behalf of such a man I will boast—but about myself I will not boast, except in regard to my weaknesses.
6. For if I should want to boast, I would not be foolish—for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no one may think more of me than what he sees in me or hears from me—
7. even in the extraordinary quality of the revelations. So that I would not exalt myself, a thorn in the flesh was given to me—a a messenger of satan to torment me, so I would not exalt myself.