Many times our "thorns" are put there by God to distract us from gross immorality. Such was the case of Basil, as referenced by Flavel in The Mystery of Providence:

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Our Christian classics readings from the best divines, with notices biographical and critical, by J. Hamilton By Christian classics, James Hamilton

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