Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Through the wall (dia tou teixouv). Paul in II Corinthians 11:33 explains dia tou teixouv as being dia quridov (through a window) which opened into the house on the inside of the wall as is true today in Damascus as Hackett saw there. See Joshua 2:15 f. (cf. I Samuel 19:12) for the way that Rahab let out the spies "by a cord through the window."
Lowering him (auton xalasantev). First aorist active participle of xalaw, old and common verb in a nautical sense (Acts 27:17, Acts 27:30) as well as otherwise as here. Same verb used by Paul of this experience (II Corinthians 11:33).
In a basket (en sfuridi). The word used when the four thousand were fed (Mark 8:8; Matthew 15:37). A large basket plaited of reeds and distinguished in Mark 8:19 f. (Matthew 16:9 f.) from the smaller kofinov. Paul uses sarganh, a basket made of ropes. This escape by night by the help of the men whom he had come to destroy was a shameful memory to Paul (II Corinthians 11:33). Wendt thinks that the coincidences in language here prove that Luke had read II Corinthians. That, of course, is quite possible.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Acts 9:25:
Luke 5:4
Acts 10:11
Acts 12:2
Acts 19:31
2 Corinthians 11:33
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