And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
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Ephrem The Syrian
AD 373
If he had been the son of a foreign god, the sun would not have been eclipsed when the Lord was raised on his cross. The Creator would have spread out a more intense light, because his enemy would have been withdrawn from his sight. He would have caused his light to shine on the Jews, because they would have been doing his will. He would have clothed the temple with a curtain of glory, because its enemy’s death would have purified its sad impurities, and the breaker of its law would have gone out from it. Commentary on Tatian’s Diatessaron
