He was a burning and a shining light: and you were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
AD 202
For he did not burden his father, when the voice issued forth from silence; but as when not believed it rendered him tongue-tied, so did the voice sounding out clearly set his father free, to whom he had both been announced and born. Now the voice and the burning light
