Damascus
place · 5 works · 7 mentions · 7 anchored passages
in the texts
Adversus Marcionem
City named in the Isaiah prophecy concerning the child who would take its strength.
next, to take the strength of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria against the king of the Assyrians.
and Damascus was formerly reckoned to Arabia, before it was transcribed into Syrophoenicia by the distinction of the Syrias — whose strength then Christ received, by receiving its insignia, namely gold and perfume.
For when in David Christ is sung as girded with a sword upon his thigh, or in Isaiah as receiving the spoils of Samaria and the strength of Damascus, you truly hammer him out a visible warrior too.
Letters
City toward which Saul was traveling when Christ addressed him.
"—when he was running to Damascus, wishing to bind together the disciples of Christ.
Protrepticus
City shown by Artaxerxes, along with Sardis, to reverence the statue of Aphrodite Anaitis.
After many cycles of years, however, they too came to reverence statues of human form, as Berossus shows in the third book of his Chaldaic Affairs, this having been introduced by Artaxerxes son of Darius son of Ochus, who first set up the statue of Aphrodite Anaïtis in Babylon and Susa and Ecbatana, and showed the Persians and Bactrians and Damascus and Sardis to reverence it.
Adversus Judaeos
City whose 'power' Isaiah prophesies the child will take.
Let it be believed that those eastern Magi honoured the infancy of Christ as king with gold and frankincense, and the infant received the power of Damascus without battle and arms.
De Baptismo
The city to which the blinded Paul is sent, where he is instructed to be baptized.
And this is what the Lord had commanded him in that stroke of blindness, saying, Rise and enter Damascus;