Verily, verily, I say unto you, That you shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and you shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
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Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
AD 550
A time to weep, when it is the time of suffering; as when the Lord also says, "Verily I say unto you, that ye shall weep and lament.".
But to laugh, as concerns the resurrection: "For your sorrow "He says, "shall be turned into joy."