Therefore shall you fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with you in the night, and I will destroy your mother.
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Theophylact of Ochrid
AD 1107
The mother of the people is the synagogue, which—since it is covered by the darkness of ignorance and did not receive the radiance of God’s knowledge—may be compared to the night.