Quote:The writer of 2 Corinthians must have confused Aretas IV who reigned in the first century AD with Aretas III who reigned in the first century BC.
Or, whatever scraps of happy horseshit that later came to be called "2 Corinthians" were cobbled together for a specific purpose. Let us not forget that when Aretas III ruled Damascus the city of Corinth had been an abandoned ruin for 60 years and would not be re-founded as a Roman colonia until 44 BC.
Someone went far out of his way to to attribute this nonsense to "Corinth."