And through a window in a basket was I let down
The house in which he was, like Rahab's, was built upon the wall
of the city, and as she let down the spies by a cord through the
window, and as David was by Michal; so the apostle was let down
by the brethren with cords, as Jeremiah was, ( Jeremiah
38:6 ) where the Septuagint use the same word as here,
through a window; "which", as the Arabic version reads it, "was
in the wall"; or he was let down by the wall side, "in a basket
or net"; so (sarganh) , and
(atgyro) , the word which
the Syriac version here uses, signify and design a basket made of
withs, wrought together in the form of network; frequent mention
is made in the Jewish writings F5 of (twnwlxh twgyro) , "the networks and lattices of
windows"; whether these were not taken off the window and put
into a form like a basket, and in it the apostle let down by the
brethren with the help of cords, may be inquired into: however,
he
escaped his hands;
the governor's, and the Jews too who lay in wait for him. This
deliverance he mentions with thankfulness to God, and as an
instance of divine Providence in the preservation of him, for
much usefulness to the church of Christ; the Vulgate Latin
version reads, and "thus he escaped his hands".