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   TOPIC: This Week's Reading (book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper)   
      
   I'm doing more solo driving these days and, needing something to   
   listen to, have gone back to old podcasts.  Having listened to   
   Mike Duncan's "History of Rome" for the third or fourth time, I   
   have started mining "Classical Stuff You Should Know".  I just   
   listened to #33 ("The Odyssey: Part 1").  In it I think they said   
   that the word "polutropos" occurs in the Book of Acts (and of   
   course it's impossible to find something like that again in an   
   audiobook or podcast), and talked about how there are other   
   references to the Odyssey, but the only place I could find it in   
   the New Testament is at the beginning of the Letter to the   
   Hebrews.  Was this just a slip of the tongue?  And they also seem   
   to be referring to "Luke Acts"; am I just not parsing what I am   
   hearing, or is "Luke Acts" a meaningful term?   
      
   In any case, all this led me to read the Book of Acts, and I have   
   a couple of observations, or maybe two instances of the same   
   thing: padding.  I know the author wasn't being paid by the word,   
   but why then would he spend all of Chapter 7 recounting the story   
   of the Hebrews from Abraham through Moses and the Exodus?  And   
   then in Chapter 10, he first relates the story of Cornelius:   
      
   1 There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a   
   centurion of the band called the Italian band,   
   2 A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which   
   gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.   
   3 He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an   
   angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius.   
   4 And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it,   
   Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up   
   for a memorial before God.   
   5 And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname   
   is Peter:   
   6 He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea   
   side: he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do.   
      
   Then after Cornelius goes to Simon Peter's house in Joppa, we get   
   Cornelius relating this same story to Simon Peter:   
      
   30 And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this   
   hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a   
   man stood before me in bright clothing,   
   31 And said, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thine alms are   
   had in remembrance in the sight of God.   
   32 Send therefore to Joppa, and call hither Simon, whose surname   
   is Peter; he is lodged in the house of one Simon a tanner by the   
   sea side: who, when he cometh, shall speak unto thee.   
      
   Maybe it's a stylistic thing in the Greek of the time (sort of   
   like the repetitious adjectives in the Iliad and the Odyssey,   
   e.g., "the wine-dark sea", which is a common phrase there because   
   it is the right meter to fit in the poem when one wants to talk   
   about the sea.   
      
   (Of course, in science fiction, the first example would be called   
   an info-dump.)   
      
   While I was reading, I ran across Acts 15:29 (also repeated in   
   Acts 21:25):   
      
   29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood,   
   and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye   
   keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.   
      
   These days Christians, even the strict ones, seem to be eating rare   
      
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