Day 192 - Jeremiah 15, 25, 36, 45

“In that day, says the Lord, the sun shall go down at noon, and there shall be darkness over the earth in the clear day. I will turn your feast days into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation,” [Amo 8:9-10.] plainly announced that obscuration of the sun that at the time of his crucifixion took place from the sixth hour onwards, and that after this event, those days that were their festivals according to the law, and their songs, should be changed into grief and lamentation when they were handed over to the Gentiles. Jeremiah too makes this point still clearer when he thus speaks concerning Jerusalem: “She that has borne seven languishes. Her soul has become weary. Her sun has gone down while it was yet noon. She has been confounded and suffered reproach. The remainder of them will I give to the sword in the sight of their enemies.” Those of them, again, who spoke of God’s having slumbered and taken sleep, and of his having risen again because the Lord sustained him, [Psa 3:5 (3:6 LXX).] and who enjoined the principalities of heaven to set open the everlasting doors, that the King of glory might go in, [Psa 24:7 (23:7 LXX.] proclaimed beforehand his resurrection from the dead through the Father’s power and his reception into heaven—St Irenaeus of Lyon