Light And Revelation

Ἔφαναν αἱ ἀστραπαὶ αὐτοῦ τῇ οἰκουμένῃ εἶδεν καὶ ἐσαλεύθη ἡ γῆ.   Οἱ φωτινοὶ λόγοι τῆς θείας διδασκαλίας αὐτοῦ ἀστραπῶν τρόπῳ ἔφαναν πάσῃ τῇ οἰκομένῃ καταυγάζοντες καὶ φωτίζοντες αὐτὴν, ἐπὶ τῳ ἔχειν φῶς γνώσεως. Ἀλλ' ἡ γῆ ταύτας τὰς ἀστραπὰς ἰδοῦσα, κλονηθεῖσα μετέβαλεν, ἀποβαλοῦσα τὴν γεώδη ποιότητα, ἐπὶ τοῦ ἀναλαβεῖν τὴν εἰκόνα τοῦ ἐπουρανίου. Ἰδουσα τοὺς ἀνθρωπίνους νόμους, καὶ τά κατάλληλα τούτοις ἔθη, πάντες οἱ ἄνθρωποι τα σφέτερα πάτρια καταλιπόντες, τῇ εὐαγγελικῇ παιδεύσει προσεληλύθασιν. Ἀλλὰ οἰκουμένη ἰδοῦσα τὰς ἀστραπὰς τοῦ Κυρίου, ἐλλάμπεται. Ἡ δὲ γῆ  σαλεύεται διὰ τοῦ κλόνου, ἀρχὴν λαμβάνουσα πρὸς τὸ καὶ αὐτὴν οἰκουμένην χρηματίσαι, ἵνα φανῶσιν αὐτῇ τοιαύτῃ γεγενημένῃ αἱ θεῖσα τοῦ Κυρίου ἀστραπαί Δίδυμος Αλεξανδρεύς, Εἰς Ψαλμους, Ψαλμος  ϞϚ'

His lightning revealed the world, and the earth saw and trembled. 1 The shining words of His Divine teachings are lightning revealing the whole world, illuminating and enlightening it that it receive the light of knowledge. Which lightning the earth seeing, it is shaken and changed, casting off terrestrial deeds, that it put on the image of heaven. Seeing the laws of men and the associated customs, all men shall abandon such an inheritance for the teaching of the Gosepl. For the world beholding the lightening of the Lord is illuminated. The earth is shaken with tumult grasping the deeds of the world, which are revealed in the divine lighting of God. Didymus the Blind, Commentary on the Psalms, from Psalm 96 1 Ps 96.4