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It is a play on words.
Cerinthus was a substitute for honey and wax. A honeyed mouth was a complement to oral performance. Writing tablets were covered with a wax on which letters could be easily composed and erased...

The section in 1 Samuel 19 also has something similar: 11Saul sent men to David’s house to watch it and to kill him in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, warned him, “If you don’t run for your life tonight, tomorrow you’ll be killed.” 12 So Michal let David down through a window, and he fled and...

2 Cor 11 In Damascus the governor under King Aretas had the city of the Damascenes guarded in order to arrest me. 33But I was lowered in a basket from a window in the wall and slipped through his hands . Those verses have only one precedent in OT: Joshua 2 2 The king of Jericho was told, “Look, some...

A possible explanation of this unusual episode, according to a theory of R. E. Lay http://www.christianorigins.com/pauldamascus.html , is that Damascus was in reality a symbolic name for some other location (like in Damascus Document). Paul as a young kinsman of Herod Antipas was chosen to lead the ...

How something so complicated, as God is perceived to be, can exist in a timeless domain. The domains without time and space are infinitely more primitive than the space-time domain in which we live. Without space-time there is no move. Nothing happens. How something which lives in a such domain can ...