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Through the wall (dia tou teichous). Paul in 2Co 11:33 explains dia tou teichous as being dia thuridos (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 Jos 2:15. (cf. 1Sa 19:12) for the way that Rahab let out the spies “by a cord through the window.”
Lowering him (auton chalasantes). First aorist active participle of chalaō, old and common verb in a nautical sense (Act 27:17, Act 27:30) as well as otherwise as here. Same verb used by Paul of this experience (2Co 11:33).
In a basket (en sphuridi). The word used when the four thousand were fed (Mar 8:8; Mat 15:37). A large basket plaited of reeds and distinguished in Mar 8:19. (Mat 16:9.) from the smaller kophinos. Paul uses sarganē, 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 (2Co 11:33). Wendt thinks that the coincidences in language here prove that Luke had read II Corinthians. That, of course, is quite possible.