The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them has the light shined.
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Leo of Rome
AD 461
Although he filled all things with his invisible majesty, [Christ] came, nevertheless, to those who had not known him, as if from a very remote and deep seclusion. At that time, he took away the blindness of ignorance, as it has been written: “For those sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death, a light has risen.”