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October 24, 2003

Smitten

During the filming of The Passion of Christ, lightning struck the star once and an assistant director twice. Admittedly, the chances of being struck by lightning when standing on a hill and holding up a metal umbrella are higher than normal. But still … might there be some smiting going on here?

Incidentally, reading that article got me to look at the trailer for the movie. The only dialogue in it is Pilate’s “ecce homo” — pronounced “ET-chay OH-moe” in the trailer, which is modern Church Latin pronounciation, not the way Pilate would have pronounced it in the First Century. That is, if he didn’t say it Greek instead, since he was addressing non-Romans. Ah, well.

(Via Nick.)

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