Day 155 - Amos 1-5

When Christ came, the people of the old covenant denied him, [Jhn 19:5-6.] but the devils confessed him. [Luk 4:41.] His forefather David was not ignorant of him when he said, “I will place a lamp for my anointed.” [Psa 132:17 (131:17 LXX).] Some have interpreted “lamp” as the splendor of prophecy; others have understood by the lamp the flesh he assumed of the Virgin, according to the words of the apostle: “But we carry this treasure in vessels of clay.” [2Co 4:7.] The prophet was not ignorant of him when he said, “And declaring his Christ to men.” Moses also knew him, and Isaiah and Jeremiah as well. None of the prophets was ignorant of him. Even the devils acknowledged him, for he rebuked them, and Scripture adds, “Because they knew that he was the Christ.”—St Cyril of Jerusalem