From Margaret Pitcher
That was the 1st century. It was believed that strange and wonderful astronomical events happened when great men were born or died. So people naturally assumed that one must have happened when Jesus was born, just as when he died, so one was put into the Gospel stories.
Were Paul a 21st-century man he might have said he had “a light bulb moment”. If our descendants see any of our cartoons with light bulbs over the heads of great thinkers, perhaps they will try to find out how those strange pear-shaped objects worked.
Waramanga, ACT, Australia
