In Damascus the governor under Aretas was guarding the city of the Damascenes in order to arrest me. But I was lowered in a basket from a window in the wall and slipped through his hands — the *final image*: Paul, the great apostle, *chaleuó*, lowered in a *saránē*, basket, like a *merchant's goods*, through a *window*. *Escape via basket* is the *humiliating inverse* of all *worldly glory*. It is *apostolic triumph*.

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