Concerning Damascus: Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard bad news, they are melted; anxiety is in the sea, it is not able to be quiet.
When your wares went out from the seas, you satisfied many peoples. With the multitude of your wealth and your goods, you enriched the kings of the earth.
he asked from him letters to Damascus, to the synagogues, so that if he found any being of the Way, both men and women, they having been bound, he might bring them to Jerusalem.