The
ISIS militant group is further advancing its extreme religious agenda by
destroying Shiite mosques and Islamic shrines around the ancient Iraqi city of
Mosul, which they captured last month. Al-Arabiya reported that the damage extends to at
least four shrines to Sunni or Sufi figures, and six Shiite mosques in the
northern province of Nineveh. See pictures & read complete article at – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/07/isis-destroys-shiite-mosque_n_5564373.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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