And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
(and when did it "shudder exceedingly "except at the passion of Christ, when the earth also trembled to her centre, and the veil of the temple was rent, and the tombs were burst asunder?.
And so the "pressure "must be maintained up to that hour in which the orb-involved from the sixth hour in a general darkness-performed for its dead Lord a sorrowful act of duty; so that we too may then return to enjoyment when the universe regained its sunshine.
