 | George Knight (of Edinburgh) - 1840 - 450 pages
...Ar'etas the kin'g kept the eit'y of tjie Damasee'nes with a gar'rispn, desi'rpus to apprehend' me ; -0 And through a win'dow in a bas'ket was I let down' by tjie wa'll, and esea'ped his hand's. CHAP. XII 1 It is not expe'dient for me doubt'less to glo'ry :... | |
 | John Jones - 1841 - 700 pages
...his implacable foes. The passage to which I refer you will find in 2nd Corinthians, xi. 32, 33 : " In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king, kept...was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands." " Aretas" was a Prince of Arabia, and received the sovereignty of Damascus from his father, who captured... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - 1842 - 432 pages
...rushed into danger but where duty compelled, — I have always shunned it where duty permitted.'" " In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept...was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands." Peter provoked not his crucifixion, but " another carried him whither he would not." If the law of... | |
 | Catholic Church - 1843 - 854 pages
...not. At Damascus the governor of the nation under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes, to apprehend me : and through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and so escaped his hands. [Chap. xii. 1.] If I must glory (it is not expedient indeed:) but I will come... | |
 | Charles Simmons - 1844 - 552 pages
...painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. 32. In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept...was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands. Gal. 1. 10. If I yet pleased men. I should not be the servant of Christ. The persecuted rewarded, and... | |
 | William Burkitt - 1844 - 862 pages
...honour usually annexed by the Jews at the naming of God. 32 In Damascus, the governor under Arelas testimony of a sincere and upright conscience: Our rejoicing W «Ли. Learn hence, : 33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands. The apostle... | |
 | 1844 - 420 pages
...is the glory f Christianity that it teaches us to eel an interest in the weal or woe of under Atetas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous me: to apprehend the obscurest man that lives, to rejoice in his joy, and to weep in his sorrows. 31.... | |
 | Henry Blunt - 1845 - 296 pages
...circumstantially in the eleventh chapter of the second epistle to cc the Corinthians, where St. Paul says, In Damascus, the governor under Aretas the king, kept...was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands." When we consider the natural character of Saul, his undaunted boldness, his unquenchable spirit ; and... | |
 | John Kitto - 1845 - 932 pages
...this fact we are indebted to the apostle Paul. ' In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king bpt the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous...window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and «caped his hanils' (2 Cor. xi. 32, compared with Act« ix. 2-1). We are thus furnished with a chronological... | |
 | Pope Gregory I - 1845 - 616 pages
...Cor. In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept 33^ 2' guard uver the city of the Damascenes, desirous to apprehend me ; and through a window, in a basket, was I let down by the wall, and so escaped his hands. Unto whom I will take leave to say, ' O Paul, already scest thou Jesus in heaven,... | |
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In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me : 33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands. 
