That day
Friday, 10 August 2007
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.