And all the people that heard him, and the tax collectors, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
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Gregory of Nyssa
AD 394
But singing and lamentation are nothing else but in the breaking forth, the one indeed of joy, the other of sorrow. Now at the sound of atune played upon a musical instrument, man by the concordant beating of his feet, and motion of his body, portrays his inward feelings. Hence he says, We have sung, and you have not danced; we have mourned to you and you have not wept.