Slave-trading had become a huge English industry
by the 1780s. In four centuries, the European slave trade carried over ten
million slaves from Africa, over sixty percent of them between 1721 and 1820.
Some of them went east. Thus the East India Company had a few slaves, but left
the business in 1762. By then the trade had become largely transatlantic,
shipping an average of 60,000 a year, with Portuguese America the chief market,
followed by the West Indies and the United States. Read the complete article at -- http://fromonejesus.blogspot.com/2014/03/british-christianity-business-of.html
The witnesses, laying their coats at the feet of Saul, were the men that would cast the first stones at Stephen in Acts 7. Why did they all lay their coats at Saul’s feet? The Talmud contains a very interesting account of the act of stoning that may provide the answer. “When the trial was over, they take him [the condemned person] out to be stoned. The place of stoning was at a distance from the court, as it is said, ‘Take out the one who has cursed.’ [i] A man stands at the entrance of the court; in his hand is a signaling flag [Hebrew sudarin = sudar , ‘scarf, sweater’]. A horseman was stationed far away but within sight of him. If one [of the judges] says, ‘I have something [more] to say in his favor,’ he [the signaler] waves the sudarin , and the horseman runs and stops them [from stoning him]. Even if [the condemned person] himself says, ‘I have something to say in my favor,’ they bring him back, even four of five times, only provided that there is some substance to...
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