[10.75] This was my experience during my illness at Byblos. My recollections of the evening preceding the day of the trance are totally effaced. [10.76] II. Cor. xii. 1, etc. [10.77] _Acts_ ix. 27; Gal. i. 16; I. Cor. ix. 1; xv. 8; Hom. Pseudo-Clem, xvii. 13-19. Comp. the experience of Omar, _Sirat errasoul_, p. 226, etc. [10.78] _Acts_ ix. 8; xxii. 11. [10.79] Its ancient Arabic name was _Tarik el Adhwa_. It is now called _Tarik el Mustekim_, answering to Ῥύμη ἐυθεῖα. The eastern gate (_Bâb Sharki_) and a few vestiges of the colonnades yet remain. See the Arabic texts given by Wustenfield in the _Zeitschrift für vergleichende Erdkunde_ of Lüdde for the year 1842, p. 168; Porter, _Syria and Palestine_, p. 477; Wilson, _The Lands of the Bible_, II., 345, 355-52. [10.80] _Acts_ xxii. 11. [10.81] The account given in _Acts_ ix. appears to have been formed from two mingled narratives. One, the more original, comprises vv. 9, &c. The other more developed, containing more dialogue and legend, includes verses 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. The 12th verse belongs neither to that which precedes nor to that which follows it. The account in chapter xxii. 12-16, is more conformed to the above-mentioned texts. [10.82] _Acts_ ix. 12. It should read ἄνδρα ἐν ὁράματι according to manuscript B. of the Vatican. Comp. verse 10. [10.83] _Acts_ ix. 18; comp. _Tobit_, ii. 9; vi. 10; xi. 13. [10.84] _Acts_ ix. 18; xxii. 16. [10.85] Gal. i. 2, 8-9, 11, &c.; I. Cor. ix. 1; xi. 23; xv. 8, 9; Col. i. 25; Ephes. i. 19; iii. 3, 7, 8; _Acts_ xx. 24; xxii. 14-15, 21; xxvi. 16; Homiliæ Pseudo-Clem., xvii. 13-19. [10.86] Gal. i. 17. [10.87] Ἀραβία is "the province of Arabia," principally composed of the Hauran. [10.88] Gal. i. 17, &c.; _Acts_ ix. 19, &c.; xxvi. 20. The author of the _Acts_ believes that this first sojourn at Damascus was short, and that Paul shortly after his conversion, came to Jerusalem and preached there. (Comp. xxii. 17.) But the passage of the epistle to the Galatians is peremptory. [10.89] Insc. discovered by Waddington and De Vogüé (Revue Archéol., April, 1864, p. 284, &c., _Comptes Rendus_ de l'Acad. des Inscr. et B. L., 1865, p. 106-108). [10.90] Dion Cass. lix. 12. [10.91] I have discussed this in the _Bulletin Archéologique_ of Langperier and De Wette, September, 1856. [10.92] Gal. i. 16, with following verses, prove that Paul preached immediately after his conversion. [10.93] Jos. B. J., I., ii. 25; II., xx. 2. [10.94] _Acts_ ix. 20-22. [10.95] Gal. i. 16. It is the sense of οὐ προσανεθέμην σαρκὶ και αἵματι. CHAPTER XI. [11.1] Acts ix. 31. [11.2] See the atrociously naïve avowal of 3 Macc. vii. 12, 13.