Eusebius (b.
265
– d. 339/340 CE; aka Eusebius of
Caesarea and Eusebius Pamphili)
was Bishop of Caesarea and the
personal historian of Roman Emperor Constantine
the Great. In his Church History,
Eusebius wrote the first surviving history of the Christian Church as a
chronologically-ordered account, based on earlier sources, complete from the
period of the Apostles to his own time.1 Many questions have been
raised about his agenda, since he was the emperor’s personal historian and a
bishop, and the accuracy of the information. But, the sources he used often
provided information that should not be ignored. Read complete blog at -- http://fromonejesus.blogspot.com/2015/01/yeshua-jacob-and-simeon.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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