***But you are right that it is impossible to know exactly what is meant just from this passage. We require a tradition in order to understand. It could mean stigmata or not.***
Thank you.
What sources of tradition lead you, as a Catholic, to believe Paul is speaking of stigmata? Just curious.
What sources of tradition lead you, as a Catholic, to believe Paul is speaking of stigmata? Just curious. Why, there is only One Source of Tradition. ;-)
Honestly, I believe that some saints have been given sitgmata. I think it's a real thing and not fraud or the devil.
That a great saint like Paul may have been gifted is not out of the realm of possibility and this seems to support that. But I am not certain if this is so or not.
SD