OT: Announcement (or How I spent my summer vacation)
Leon Brooks
leon at cclinic.com.au
Tue Sep 24 09:34:50 EDT 2002
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 02:12, Brian Bruns wrote:
>> Lydia I presume to be a function of her progenitors.
> Let's see...Lydia from Beetle Juice ("I am alone...crumple...I am utterly
> alone"). Lydia the Tatooed lady. Lydia Lunch (for those who remember the
> 1980's punk scene). Did i miss any?
And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of
Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord
opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.
Acts 16:14, KJV
(http://bible.gospelcom.net/cgi-bin/bible?passage=ACTS+16:14&version=KJV)
`Purple' was a very expensive dye (think royalty) made from little shellfish.
This Lydia would have been quite wealthy. Acts 16:40 implies that her house
had plenty of accomodation, and Thyatira was at the time a burgeoning trade
centre.
Cheers; Leon
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