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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · September 3, 1867

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. XXX, No. 12

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Throwing Dust into the Air. Acts xxii, 23.

WHEN Paul gave to the Jews in Jerusalem an account of his conversion, they gave audience till he mentioned his commission to carry the gospel to the Gentiles. Then, it is said, “they lifted up their voices and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth; for it is not fit that he should live. And they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the air.” This latter act, which would be taken in this country to be only the wild freak of a madman, it appears had a striking significance with that people. Dr. Hale says, that even at the present day it is an expression of contempt among the Arabians, particularly to criminals, and signifies that such “were fit only to be covered with earth.” Chronol. Vol. iii, p. 538.