Week 2 at the CACEC course on the Book of Acts. The course is specifically about some of the speeches in the book, of which there are nineteen altogether, apparently: eight by Peter, one by Stephen, one by James and nine by Paul. Today we looked at Peter’s sermon to Cornelius, James at the council of Jerusalem and Stephen’s long speech in Acts 7. Interesting and helpful like last time. I was particularly intrigued by the fact that in the Good News Bible (which is the version use on the course), Stephen’s quote from Amos 5 is almost unrecognisable from the original. When I got home I checked it out in the NIV, and found that Acts 7: 42-43 and Amos 5: 25-27 are a lot more similar, and the footnote explained the use of the Septuagint by Luke in Acts 7. I will have to check a few more versions, because the words in Acts 7 in the GNB really are a long way different!
The discussion got onto the crossing of the Red Sea, somehow, and we were assured by one of the group that “all the archaeological evidence says that the Jews did not come from Egypt.” I did try to point out that any such ‘evidence’ will inevitably be simply to back up a political point of view, and therefore should be treated with a pinch of salt… no, a bucket of salt!
By cycling to Aber station I saved a couple of quid in petrol. I was thinking how different the Aber Valley would be today if the railway had not been closed.
By cycling along the track, then down Mill Road to just past the railway bridge, along a footpath cutting across to Nantgarw Road, I more-or-less followed the path of the old line anyway.
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