An
important archaeological discovery was announced in Greece that was found
underwater in Kiladha Bay on the Peloponnese Peninsula south of Athens. Resting
there for millennia, the remnants of an ancient Greek village of the 3rd
millennium B.C. were found by divers just under the surface of the bay that
forms part of the Argolic Gulf of southern Greece. The Bronze Age sunken village dates
back to before 2,000 years B.C. The team of underwater archaeologists
discovered stone defensive structures that are of a “massive nature, unknown in
Greece until now,” said Beck. See pictures and read article at -- http://www.speroforum.com/a/TJGTRQPMJA31/76356-Bronze-Age-Greek-city-found-underwater#.Ve0I_hFVikq
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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