That day
Monday, 1 November 2004
The verse
“Even so, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.”Matthew 5:16 · WEB
From the tradition
“For we may venture to say that the Gospel is the first fruits of all the Scriptures.”
Origen of Alexandria · Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book I, §4
In the words of a public-domain translation (tr. Allan Menzies, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 9, ed. Allan Menzies (1896)), checked against the source edition.