Ah, you might be right. And it’s definitely ridiculous (John 19:32 implies that Jesus dies faster than expected, and Mark 15:44 might do too.)

Anyway coincidentally earlier today I was reading Wisdom of Solomon 7 and the stuff about Wisdom as creator, which is v important for early Christology and how they understand the Second Person of the Trinity, and naturally uses female pronouns for Wisdom.

I briefly wondered if they were completely at cross purposes and she was agreeing that Christ died on the Cross (but was nevertheless strong and manly), but… I got nothing

Though it does raise the question of why he booked a flight via Heathrow in the first place, when Aer Lingus do a perfectly good direct one…

Tell me you know absolutely nothing whatsoever about Classics without…

I mean, even if you’re far more interested in tech than literature or philology, this was just last year, and incredibly cool:

www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

I think I might have admitted to it on LJ. Under friends lock….

I mean, yeah, he seems to have assumed everywhere works like the US, but he will have had opportunity to realise it doesn’t- loads of people connect in Heathrow and manage this every day!

The signage is always super clear, though, and they tell you in the plane that you follow flight connections if Heathrow is not your final destination.

Shantytok definitely raised its profile.

There was never a time when the God who became human was not! The man of Nazareth, born of Mary, friend of Lazarus, who ate and drank and walked and laughed and wept and died on a cross and rose again is the Eternal God Uncreated!

I actually rather like the monorail. But late night it must be pretty bad. Although even getting into Manhattan from JFK at night was bafflingly slow and bad last time I tried it (though I suppose it was a while ago).

Unfortunately…

Do you mean like hyper mobility? Could be a bunch of things.

Those three ominous words: change at Jamaica.

(You can get the NJ transit directly from Newark airport to Penn Station, though? I think?)

It goes til the 6th. But if you transfer the Epiphany to Sunday, then yeah, the 4th.