Rahab type of Paul in basket

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Ever wonder why Paul seems so excited about being let down in a basket? Comes to it as a climax, doesn’t he? (I laughed once when I read it.)

I think the reference is to Rahab. The parallel is fascinating, if you think about it.
 
William2 said:
Ever wonder why Paul seems so excited about being let down in a basket? Comes to it as a climax, doesn’t he? (I laughed once when I read it.)

I think the reference is to Rahab. The parallel is fascinating, if you think about it.
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How 'bout book and chapter, for those of us who are biblically challenged.

Thanks!!
 
Rahab is, if I remember correctly, the woman innkeeper (or “harlot”) who helps Israel at Jericho. She lives in Jericho and receives the spies. Maybe she was actually a prostitute. What she was sometime, it matters not to me. Rahab famously lets down the cord from her window.

At the end of 2 Corinthians 11, Paul comes to a climax by saying “through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall,” to escape, at Damascus. Why such a big deal about this, that it is the climax. Also see verse 31: "The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ … "

I think that Paul is saying, look, Rahab at Jericho was a type of me. Rahab comes over from Jericho and the occupied land of promise, Paul comes over from the Synagogue. Rahab is key in Israel’s beginning to take the land, Paul similarly for the Church.

I haven’t expressed this well, but perhaps the point can be seen. Also I need to revisit the story of Rahab. But I’ve had this idea for a long time.
 
I have walked the outside of the wall in that part of the old city of Damascus. There are still houses built on the wall. The highest windows would be about the equivalent of 3rd story, 16-20 feet up. Somewhere I have some pictures, but they’re pre-digital camera, and I don’t know where they are.

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mark_a said:
How 'bout book and chapter, for those of us who are biblically challenged.

Thanks!!
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The story about Rahab and the Israelite spies is found in Joshua 2.The footnote in the New American Bible cross-references this story to Paul’s experience in Acts 9:25 and 2 Corinthians 11:23.
 
Fidelis,
Very good to know that the parallel has been noted before.
 
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