This description removes any ambiguity. These two creatures belong to the divine world, and their intervention will also be as rapid as lightning (ἀστραπή).46 ■ 5 The women then understand what is happening.47 In their uncertainty, but not abandoning the legitimate fear of God, they throw themselves to the ground in an act of veneration.48 The angelic message has a number of dimensions. It begins with a question, but it is a question that can be read in two ways depending on whether one understands