 | Alfred Plummer - 1923 - 214 pages
...governors in Palestine and Alexandria, and perhaps II. COR.9 g 31 for evermore, knoweth that I lie not. In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Dama33 scenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me : and through a window in a basket was I let... | |
 | John Martin Thomas, Abraham Howry Espenshade - 1925 - 316 pages
...The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not. In Damascus the governor under Aretas, the king, kept...was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands. THE FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT Galatians 5 : 13-26 ; 6 : 1-10 Brethren, ye have been called unto liberty;... | |
 | 1859 - 1124 pages
...Damascus the '.or under Aretas the king kept the city of the scenei with a garrison, desirous to apprthend me: and through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands." We shall enter the city at another time. Your sincere friend, THE EDITOR. QUESTIONS. Give the meaning... | |
 | 1859 - 1104 pages
...for, behold, he prayeth." It is to this period that Paul refers, when he says, (2 Cor. xi. 32, 33,) "In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascene* with a garrison, desirous to apprfhend me : and through a window in a basket was I let down... | |
 | H. L. Willmington - 1981 - 1038 pages
...The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed forevermore, knoweth that I lie not. In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept...let down by the wall, and escaped his hands" (2 Cor. 11:24-33). (Note the many other references to Paul's sufferings in this letter. See 1:3-11; 4:8-11;... | |
 | Robert E. Picirilli - 1987 - 454 pages
...heart. Jews often spoke thus; cf. Rom 1:25; 9:5. (4) Another example of Paul's trials (w. 32, 33) 32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept...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. Many commentators... | |
 | Frank Damazio - 1988 - 364 pages
...The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not. In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept...was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands. It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord."... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1980 - 600 pages
...disciples immediately. " Then the disciples," etc. (v. 25.) Of this occurrence he says : " The ethnarch of Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desiring to apprehend me." (2. Cor. xi. 32.) But observe the Writer here,1 that he does not tell the... | |
 | Charles Hodge - 1994 - 324 pages
...that he had not exaggerated or overstated his sufferings. God knew that all he had said was true. 32. In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept...Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me. It is useless to inquire why Paul introduces, as it were, as an after-thought, this disconnected account... | |
 | Jonathan M. Roberts - 1996 - 336 pages
...Saul under the name of Paul tells the same story himself,' in 2 Corinthians xi, 32, 43, as follows : " In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king, kept...was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands." Now there is something very contradictory in these two statements. In Acts it was the Jews who threatened... | |
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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. 
