What Can We Learn from The Ethiopian Eunuch?
In our first reading today we encountered a character from the New Testament who, I believe, is sadly too oftern neglected – The Ethiopian Eunuch. Yet there are, of course two Ethiopian Eunuchs in the biblical cannon. And the other is in which book?… no need to all shout at once! Yes the first Ethiopian Eunuch mentioned in the Bible in actually Ebed-Melech in Chapter 38 of the Book of Jeremiah. In that story Ebed-Melech is an official of the King of Judah. Ebed-Melech saves the day in that story by leading a crack team of soldiers to rescue the prophet Jeremiah from a cistern that he has been thrown into (a cistern as in a waterproof well type structure used to collect rainwater – not a flushing toilet cistern).