“Then the disciples took him by night, and let him down by the wall in a basket.”
But his followers took him by night and lowered him in a basket through an opening in the wall.—the image of escape through a wall recalls Rahab's rescue and establishes Saul/Paul as a figure of God's preserved remnant. The basket (spyris, a rope-woven container) is an instrument of humiliation for a rabbi of Saul's status, yet he accepts it. This episode foreshadows the pattern: persecution → escape → continued ministry, a cycle Paul later recounts in 2 Corinthians 11:32-33.
Church Fathers on Acts 9:25
and let him down by the wall in a basket. Acts 9:25 What then? Having escaped such a danger, does he flee? By no means, but goes where he kindled them to greater rage. (Recapitulation, v. 20, 21.) And straightway in the synagogues he preached Jesus — for he was accurate in the faith— that this is the Son of God. But all that heard him were amazed, etc., for indeed it was incredible. But Saul increased, etc. Therefore after many days this happens: viz. the Jews took counsel…
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