. Daily Bible illustrations : being original readings for a year, on subjects from sacred history, biography, georgaphy, antiquities, and theology : Especially designed for the family circle. f the town wall, so thatmany of the house tops are nearly, if not quite, on a levelwith its summit. Sometimes, indeed, the upper part of the * Hora Paulina, Chap, v., No. 1. Edited by Rev. T. R. 148 FORTY-FOURTH WEEK—MONDAY. houses rises considerably above the level of the wall, and thensometimes an upper apartment even overhangs the wall, form-ing a kiosk, where the master of the house can, in
. Daily Bible illustrations : being original readings for a year, on subjects from sacred history, biography, georgaphy, antiquities, and theology : Especially designed for the family circle. f the town wall, so thatmany of the house tops are nearly, if not quite, on a levelwith its summit. Sometimes, indeed, the upper part of the * Hora Paulina, Chap, v., No. 1. Edited by Rev. T. R. 148 FORTY-FOURTH WEEK—MONDAY. houses rises considerably above the level of the wall, and thensometimes an upper apartment even overhangs the wall, form-ing a kiosk, where the master of the house can, in his recrea-tive moments, sit alone or with his friends, enjoying the viewof the open country. Wo might therefore infer, from theleading narrative alone, that it was from some such house thatthe apostle was let down in a basket; but his own information,given in 2 Cor. xi. 33, that the basket was let down througha window, places this beyond question. Houses built against, upon, or overhanging the wall of thecity, are still to be seen at Damascus; some of them nearthe spot, hard by the Jerusalem Gate, where tradition, withits usual determinateness, places the precise spot of Sauls es-. cape. Passing through the gate of Jerusalem, says , I cast my eyes up to the top of the wall, and ob-served that houses were built upon it; and near one of them ARETAS THE KING. 149 was a -walled up portal and window, through the latter ofwhich, Christian tradition says the apostle was let down in abasket when he escaped for his life ; and, according to Moslemtradition, the reign of Mohammedanism shall cease whenevera Christian shall enter the gate through the former. Henceit is strongly built up. FORTY-FOURTH WEEK—TUESDAY. ARETAS THE KING. 2 COR. XI. 32. We may this evening give our attention to a curious pointin the history of Sauls escape from Damascus, which does notappear in the regular narrative, nor in the apostles own ref-erence to it. We find it in the second of his epistles t
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