As he wound his way up Via Dolorosa to the top of Calvary Hill.Jesus (or Christus as he would have been known to Seneca and other Roman contemporaries) had suffered immensely. He'd been beaten, flogged, stabbed, forced to bear his own cross,
that Marcus spoke almost two centuries after Jesus; other Christians must have spoken this truth as they were cruelly executed by the Romans under Marcus's reign: Forgive them; they are deprived of truth. They wouldn't do this if they weren't.
Itโs hard to imagine now how big Marilyn Monroe was in the 50s:
- she was the most famous woman in the world;
- by most menโs account, the most beautiful;
- the most desired;
- trailblazer โบ๏ธ