Through the tender mercy of our God; by which the dawn from on high has visited us,
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Cyril of Alexandria
AD 444
For the world was wandering in error, serving the creation in the place of the Creator and was darkened over by the blackness of ignorance. Night, as it were, that had fallen upon the minds of all, permitted them not to see him, who is truly and by nature God. But the Lord of all rose for the Israelites, like a light and a sun. .
