That day
Saturday, 31 March 2007
The verse
“For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.”2 Timothy 1:7 · 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.