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     * Damascus.
     # 26; Ac 9:24,25|
     * Aretas.
       This Aretas was an Arabian king, and the father-in-law of
       Herod Antipas, upon whom he made war in consequence of his
       having divorced his daughter.  Herod applied to Tiberius for
       help, who sent Vitellius to reduce Aretas, and to bring him
       alive or dead to Rome.  By some means or other Vitellius
       delayed his operations, and in the mean time Tiberius died;
       and it is probable that Aretas, who was thus snatched from
       ruin, availed himself of the favourable state of things, and
       seized on Damascus, which had belonged to his ancestors.