كارولين ليست في الكتاب المقدس — لكن جونيا موجودة

Caroline is not in the Bible. It is the French feminine of Carolus — the Latin behind Charles — from the Germanic Karl, a word that meant simply man. Which means Caroline is one of a great many women’s names made by putting an ending on a man’s. That is worth sitting with, dear friends, because Scripture has a story about exactly that, and it is a strange one. What does the name Caroline mean? It is Carolus with a…