And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
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Theophilus of Antioch
AD 184
By this then our Lord showed that the Holy of Holies should be no longer inaccessible, but being given over into the hands of the Romans, should be defiled, and its entrance laid open.
Whereby it is signified that the veil which kept us asunder from the holy things which are in heaven, is broken through, namely, enmity and sin.
But crying with a loud voice He gives up the ghost, because He had in Himself the power of laying down His life and taking it up again.
