The plaster casts of 86 agonized victims of the
Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 AD will go on exhibit May 26, 2015, in National
Archaeological Museum of Naples, Italy. People of Pompeii, a Roman city, were
in their death throes when a cloud of gas from the volcano enveloped them,
killing them. The gas was 300 degrees centigrade (572 degrees F). Clearly, from
the expressions of their faces and their bodily contortions they were caught by
surprise when the ash cloud finally consumed them. Harrowing image shows a
child sitting on his mother when the ash cloud hit. See pictures and read
article at -- http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/frozen-time-casts-pompeii-reveal-last-moments-volcano-victims-003117
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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