TIMELY HELP

The following is from the diary of Rev. Thomas Boston of Ettrick. Dec. 9th, 1710 —”This night I was in a bad case, I find it not easy to carry right either with or without the cross. While I was walking up and down my closet in heaviness, my little daughter whom I had laid in bed. suddenly raising herself up, said she would tell me a story, and thus she delivered herself — ‘Mary Magdalene went to the sepulchre — she went back again with them to the sepulchre; but they would not believe that Christ was risen, till Mary Magdalene met Him and He said to her ‘Tell My brethren, they are My brethren yet’.’ This she pronounced with a certain air of sweetness. It took me by the heart, ‘His brethren yet’ (thought I) and may I think that Christ will own me as one of His brethren yet? It was as life to me from the dead.”

“In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me.

“And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.”

II Corinthians 11:32, 33

Aretas IV, referred to in the text above, was king of the Nabateans who ruled over Palestine in Paul’s time. Although not mentioned directly by name in the Bible, they are alluded to in Obadiah I–7 and Malachi 1:1–7 and are important in Bible history. The Nabateans were Arabs, descendants of Esau, who moved into Edom and Moab between 600 and 400 B.C. By New Testament times their territory extended from the Red Sea to the river Euphrates. During this period they were avowed enemies of the Jews as the Arabs are to this day. This picture shows the ruins of a Nabatean altar in the Wilderness of Zin where the Israelites wandered for forty years.

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