An abyssolith, then, is a mass of rock, generally granite or one of the more basic rocks of this type...
When by this way of interlining Latin and Englisſh one with another, he has got a moderate Knowledge of the Latin Tongue, he may then be advanc'd a little farther to the reading of ſome other eaſie Latin Book, […]
[R]itual practices are not at all limited to demarcated ones, and, in fact, demarcatedness is a matter of degree rather than an absolute value[…]. While we can only speculate about how the scene happened, it is possible that Judas Iscariot's rant took place as Mary was still wiping Jesus' feet with her hair – and, if that was the situation, it is well likely that this was a somewhat ad hoc ritual performance, which was not expected to take place by some, and which was not clearly demarked at that time. […] One could play with the hypothesis that Mary made use of something that was more dynamic and ad hoc at that time than the pedilavia of our day, and so that section of the Bible provides a glimpse into a ritual practice being only at a certain stage of becoming demarcated.
It is unclear if they were still chained from two days earlier or if Cho had rechained them before he began his shooting spree.
