[10.51] High-Priest from 37 to 42; Jos. _Ant_. XVIII. v. 3; XIX. vi. 2. [10.52] _Acts_ ix. 1, 2, 14; xxii. 5; xxvi. 12. [10.53] See _Revue Numismatique_, new series, vol. iii. (1858), p. 296, etc.; 362, etc.; _Revue Archéol._, April, 1864, p. 284, etc. [10.54] Jos. B. J. II. xx. 2. [10.55] II. Cor. xi. 32. The Roman money at Damascus is wanting during the reigns of Caligula and Claud. Eckhel, _Doctrina num. vet._, part 1, vol. iii. p. 330. Damascus money, stamped "Arétas Philhellenius" (ibid.), seems to be of our Hâreth (communication of M. Waddington). [10.56] Jos. _Ant._ XVIII. v. 1, 3. [10.57] Comp. _Acts_ xii. 3; xxiv. 27; xxv. 9. [10.58] _Acts_ v. 34, etc. [10.59] See an analogous trait in the conversion of Omar. Ibn-Hiseham. _Sirat errasoul_, p. 226 (Wüstenfeld edition). [10.60] _Acts_ ix. 3; xxii. 6; xxvi. 13. [10.61] _Acts_ ix. 4, 8; xxii. 7, 11; xxvi. 14, 16. [10.62] It is here that the tradition of the middle ages locates the miracle. [10.63] This results from _Acts_ ix. 3, 8; xxii. 6, 11. [10.64] Nahr el-Aroadj. [10.65] The plain is really more than seventeen hundred feet above the level of the sea. [10.66] _Acts_ xxvi. 14. [10.67] From Jerusalem to Damascus is over eight days' journey. [10.68] _Acts_ ix. 8, 9, 18; xxii. 11, 13. [10.69] II. Cor. xii. 1, etc. [10.70] I experienced a crisis of this kind at Byblos; and with other principles I would certainly have taken the hallucinations that I had then for visions. [10.71] We possess thirteen accounts of this important episode: _Acts_ ix. 1, etc.; xxii. 5, etc.; xxvi. 12, etc. The differences remarked between these passages prove that the apostle himself varied in the accounts he gave of his conversion. That in _Acts_ ix. itself is not homogeneous, as we shall soon see. Comp. Gal. i. 15-17; I. Cor. ix. 1; xv. 8; _Acts_ ix. 27. [10.72] With the Mormons, and in the American trances, almost all the conversions are also induced by nervous excitement, producing hallucinations. [10.73] The circumstance that the companions of Paul saw and heard as he did may be legendary, especially as the accounts are on this point, being in direct contradiction. Comp. _Acts_ ix. 7; xxii. 9; xxvi. 13. The hypothesis of a fall from a horse is refuted by these accounts. The opinion which rejects entirely the narration in the _Acts_, founded on ἐν ἐμοί of Gal. i. 16, is exaggerated, ἐν Ἐμοί in this passage, has the sense of "for me." Comp. Gal. i. 24. Paul surely had at a fixed moment, a vision which resulted in his conversion. [10.74] _Acts_ ix. 3, 7; xxii. 6, 9, 11; xxvi. 13.