Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Cyprian/The Treatises of Cyprian/Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews/Book II/Part 23

23. That at mid-day in His passion there should be darkness.

In Amos: &#8220;And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, the sun shall set at noonday, and the day of light shall be darkened; and I will turn your feast-days into grief, and all your songs into lamentation.&#8221; Also in Jeremiah:&#160; &#8220;She is frightened that hath borne children, and her soul hath grown weary. Her sun hath gone down while as yet it was mid-day; she hath been confounded and accursed: I will give the rest of them to the sword in the sight of their enemies.&#8221; Also in the Gospel: &#8220;Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the earth even to the ninth hour.&#8221;