{"id":3549,"date":"2013-06-24T19:17:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T19:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=3549"},"modified":"2013-06-24T19:18:43","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T19:18:43","slug":"acts-2728-soundings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=3549","title":{"rendered":"Acts 27:28...soundings..."},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought they were so advanced as to use the speed of sound as to measure the depth. However, the term \u03b2\u03bf\u03bb\u03af\u03c3\u03b1\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u03c2 means to heave the lead. That's to drop a long enough line with a plummet at the bottom, to judge the depth of the sea.<\/p>\n

\"Sounding\" here has nothing to do with sounds, noise, etc. It comes from Old English<\/a> word sund<\/em>, which means swimming, water, sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I thought they were so advanced as to use the speed of sound as to measure the depth. However, the term \u03b2\u03bf\u03bb\u03af\u03c3\u03b1\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u03c2 means to heave the lead. That's to drop a long enough line with a plummet at the bottom, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3551,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549\/revisions\/3551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}