some subsequent revelations God gave to him and of the way God sought to keep him humble (12:1–10). In fact, there he at first hides the fact that he is the one to whom these disclosures have been given, for he writes of ‘a man in Christ’ as if this is somebody else, although it does become plain eventually that he is the one who has had these experiences (12:2, 7). Here too (v. 7) he sees that pride is totally inappropriate, for he realizes how humble is the vessel in which such a revelation is