I will now adduce another piece of evidence which might perhaps seem insignificant, but because of its antiquity must in nowise be omitted by a defendant who is indicted on a charge of innovation.  It seemed fitting to our fathers not to receive the gift of the light at eventide in silence, but, on its appearing, immediately to give thanks.  Who was the author of these words of thanksgiving at the lighting of the lamps, we are not able to say.  The people, however, utter the ancient form, and no one has ever reckoned guilty of impiety those who say “We praise Father, Son, and God’s Holy Spirit.” Ps. cxli. was called ὁ ἐπιλύχνιος ψαλμός (Ap. Const. viii. 35).  In the Vespers of the Eastern Church an evening hymn is sung, translated in D.C.A. i. 634, “Joyful Light of the holy glory of the immortal Father, the heavenly, the holy, the blessed Jesus Christ, we having come to the setting of the sun and beholding the evening light, praise God, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.  It is meet at all times that thou shouldest be hymned with auspicious voices, Son of God, Giver of Life:  wherefore the world glorifieth thee.”  And if any one knows the Hymn of Athenogenes, Identified by some with two early hymns, Δόξα ἐν ὑψίστοις, and φῶς ἱλαρόν. which, as he was hurrying on to his perfecting by fire, he left as a kind of farewell gift The mss. vary between ἐξιτήριον and ἀλεξιτήριον, farewell gift and amulet or charm.  In Ep. cciii. 299 Basil says that our Lord gave His disciples peace as an ἐξιτήριον δῶρον, using the word, but in conjunction with δῶρον.  Greg. Naz., Orat. xiv. 223 speaks of our Lord leaving peace “ὥσπερ ἄλλο τι ἐξιτήριον.” to his friends, he knows the mind of the martyrs as to the Spirit.  On this head I shall say no more.