Epistle of Barnabas But there is a great difference between these two ways. For over one are stationed the light-bringing angels of God, but over the other the angels[242] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V But he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee; for strength is made perfect in weakness. Gladly therefore shall I rather glory in infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me."[20] Tertullian Against Marcion Book V But what will excite my surprise still more is the case (next supposed by Marcion), that a God so good and gracious, and so averse to blows and cruelty, should have suborned the angel Satan-not his own either, but the Creator's-"to buffet" the apostle,[587] Tertullian On Modesty as he writes to his Timotheus. "But withal himself says that `a stake[132] Tertullian De Fuga in Persecutione or the design is to humble, as the apostle tells us, that there was given him a stake, the messenger of Satan, to buffet him;[11] Cyprian Treatise VII On the Mortality "There was given to me," he says, "a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I should not be lifted up: for which thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me; and He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee, for strength is made perfect in weakness."[31] Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews For which thing I thrice besought the Lord, that it should depart from me. And He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee; for strength is perfected in weakness."[410]