The governor under Aretas (ο εθναρχης Hαρετα). How it came to pass that Damascus, ruled by the Romans after B.C. 65, came at this …

In Damascus. This circumstance is mentioned as an additional trial. It is evidently mentioned as an instance of peril that had escaped his…

In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king . . .—The question arises at the beginning whether the fact that follows i…

After the solemn invocation of v.31, the account of a nocturnal escape from Damascus might seem trivial and out of place. Why he mentions it here i…

In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king
Aretas or Al-Hareth was a king of Arabia, of the family of the Ga ani…

The apostle gives an account of his labors and sufferings; not out of pride or vainglory, but to the honor of God, who enabled him to do and suffer…

Here the Apostle lists the evils he voluntarily undertook, namely, those endured in domestic life. He lists three evils that are opposed to the thr…