Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither has he covered the darkness from my face.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
This unexpected disaster, he says, did not happen according to human logic. I discern that this blow comes from the hand of God. And he is right in speaking of the darkness that “covers my face,” because this darkness is not ordinary darkness but is of his own dejection.
