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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Cyril of Alexandria
One says that Israel will be weak not forever but for days. For it has been reserved for her a time of salvation and a return to faith.
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
For us too, you see, once the night of this age is done, there will be a resurrection of the flesh for the kingdom; it's the model or sample of this that has already occurred in our head. That, indeed, is why the Lord wished to rise again at night; because, in the apostle's words, "God, who commanded the light to shine out of the darkness, has shone in our hearts." So the Lord represented light shining out of darkness by being born at night and also by rising at night. …
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