Of an experience like that I am prepared to boast, but not of myself personally — not except as regards my weaknesses.
If there is to be any boasting, I will boast of what I am weak enough to suffer!
It was in weakness and fear and with great trembling that I visited you;
that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled, He took away our sicknesses and he removed our diseases.
There is nothing to be gained by this sort of thing, but as I am obliged to boast, I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.