Day And Night

Dies diei eructat verbum, et nox nocti indicat scientiam. Dies diei eructabat verbum, quando Dominus loquebatur apostolis. Ipse enim divina claritate irradians, corde purissimis verba coelestis luminis intimabat. Eructabat enim verbum, cum de imis penetralibus sermones in sanctorum notitiam perducebat. Nox autem nocti indicabat scientiam, quando Judas Christum Judaeis prodidit ac tradidit occidendum. Indicare enim pertinet ad proditionem. Tale enim inter se fecerant constitutum, ut illum tenerent, quem fuissset sceleratissimus osculatus. O nefandissimum proditorem, et juste a beatorum societate discretum! Per osculum causam fecit venire interitus, per quod humani generis declaratur affectus. Nam quod diem diei et notem nocti comparavit, argumentum est quod dicitur a pari; sicut et in quadragesimo primo psalmo dicturus est: Abyssus absyssum invocat, in voce cataractarum tuarum. Cassiodorus, Expositio In Psalterium, Psalmus XVIII Source: Migne PL 70.138c-d

Day to day pours forth speech, night to night hands over knowledge. 1 Day to day poured forth speech, when the Lord spoke to His Apostles. For He, blazing with Divine brightness, with purest light infused heavenly words in the heart. For He pours forth the word when with speech concerning the inmost things He leads into the knowledge of holy things. Night however, handed over knowledge to night when Judas betrayed Him to the Jews and handed Him over to death. 2 For 'to hand over' pertains to treachery. O most wicked traitor, and rightly cut off from the society of the blessed! By a kiss he caused murder to come forth, by that through which the human race declares affection. For that he compares 'day to day' and 'night to night' is the argument which argues from similar propositions, as in the forty fourth Psalm it is said: 'Abyss invokes abyss, in the voice of your cataracts.' 3 Cassiodorus, Commentary On The Psalms, Psalm 18 1 Ps 18.2 2 Mt 26.43 3 Ps 41.8