That day
Wednesday, 7 June 2006
The verse
“Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.”Psalm 119:105 · 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.