(Galatians 1:15-17)But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by his grace, was pleased 16 to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, my immediate response was not to consult any human being. 17 I did not go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I was, but I went into Arabia. Later I returned to Damascus.
18 Then after three years, I went up to Jerusalem...
The suggestion is born when I was reading that enigmatic passage of Hebrews 9:16:
Basically, the idea is that if you want to find the place of the death of Jesus, you have to localize where Jesus did the testament.For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
In virtue of the same reason, the Latin term for ''head'' - testa - may well be the allegorical allusion behind the Gospel translation of Golgotha as ''place of the skull''.
We already know that the first testament was done on Mount Sinai, in Arabia.
Was the Arabia the same place where Jesus was cruficied (by making so the second ''testament'') ?
Was the Transfiguration Episode an anti-pauline episode meant to make the point that also the Pillars went to the Mount (of Sinai) to hallucinate Jesus in the glory?
And what about the memory of a ''battle'' happened on that mount, between Jesus and angels?