{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3407","native_reference":{"book_number":370,"chapter_from":8,"chapter_to":8,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":10,"verse_to":10},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Gregory of Neocaesarea</b>: Let us keep [the Feast of Annunciation] with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. From ancient times Israel kept their festival, but then it was with unleavened bread and bitter herbs, of which the prophet says, \"I will turn their feasts into afflictions and lamentation and their joy into shame.\" But our afflictions our Lord has assured us he will turn into joy by the fruits of repentance.<br/><i>— ON THE ANNUNCIATION TO THE HOLY VIRGIN MARY 2</i></p><p><b>Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius</b>: Suspended, then, and fastened to his cross Christ cried out to God the Father in a loud voice and willingly laid down his life. In that same hour there was an earthquake, and the veil of the temple that separated the two tabernacles was cut in two, and the sun was suddenly withdrawn, and from the sixth hour until the ninth hour there was darkness. The prophet Amos bears witness to this. \"And it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord, that the sun shall go down at midday, and the day shall be darkened of light. And I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation.\"<br/><i>— EPITOME OF THE DIVINE INSTITUTES 4:19</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"6fb16dd1b9f4dce03cb0a02d8bc48b84eb564cc732e98830b756e72a9b7a925b","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3407,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"902905f1bb0e4bc2d6dae46b201af21ae65e1261b94db9a11911023d72fcfd40","translator":null,"work":null}