For this thing I besought the Lord thrice. — We are reminded of our Lord’s three-fold prayer in Gethsemane (Matthew 26:36; Luke 22:42-45). Was St. Paul himself reminded of it? There also the answer to the prayer was not compliance with its petition, but the gift of strength to bear and to endure.
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2 Corinthians 12:8
8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.