The
divers initially thought the gleaming object they noticed on the seafloor off
the Israeli coast was a toy coin from a game. But they quickly realized they
had stumbled across something a whole lot more valuable in the ancient
Mediterranean harbor of Caesarea. Their chance discovery a few weeks ago led to
a trove of nearly 2,000 gold coins that had languished at the bottom of the sea
for about 1,000 years, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Tuesday. It's the
biggest hoard of gold coins ever discovered in Israel -- and it could lead to further
archaeological finds. Read complete article at -- http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/18/middleeast/israel-gold-coins-discovery/index.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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