2 Corinthians 11:33 (WEB)
I was let down in a basket through a window by the wall, and escaped his hands.
Fathers and councils · 3
Theodoret of Cyrus
“In obedience to this teaching the divine Apostle escaped the violence of the governor of the city, and had no hesitation in speaking of the manner of his flight, but spoke of the basket, the wall, and the window, and boasted and glorified in the act.” — editor's note: The word in the text for basket is σαργάνη, a basket of twisted work (שֹרג) commonly rope—the word used by St. Paul himself in 2 Cor. xi. 33. In Acts ix. 25…
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Augustine of Hippo
“…thou shalt glorify Me,” therefore the Apostle ought not to have fled, and to be let down by the wall in a basket that he might escape the hands of a pursuer, but should rather have waited to be taken, that, like the three children from the midst of the fires, the Lord might deliver him.” — editor's note: Acts ix. 25; 2 Cor. xi. 33
Read the whole comment“In an epistle, I have seen Paul fleeing: he was let down by the wall in a basket, to escape the hands of his persecutor.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xi. 33.
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Cross-references · 5
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 35.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 35.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 35.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 35.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 35.