The Setting Sun

Vespere autem facto, obtulerunt ei multos daemonia habentes... Solis occubitus passionem mortemque designat illius qui dixit: Quandiu in mundo sum, lux sum mundi, et sole occidente plures daemoniaci quam ante, et plures sanantur aegroti, et qui temporaliter vivens in carne, paucos Judaeorum docuit, calcato mortis regno, omnibus per orbem gentibus fidei dona transmisit, cujus ministris tanquam vitae lucisque praeconibus Psalmista dicit: Iter facite ei qui ascendit super occasum. Ascendit super occasum, quando in passione occubuit; majorem resurgendo suam gloriam manifestavit. Anselmus Laudunensis, Enarrationes In Matthaeum, Caput VIII Source: Migne PL 162.1323a

And when it was evening, they brought to Him many who had demons... 1 With the sun's setting His passion and death is signified, He who said, 'While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.' 2 And with the sun's death there are more demoniacs than before and more who are healed of their sicknesses, for He who while He was living temporally in the flesh taught a few of the Jews, having crushed down the kingdom of death, then sent forth through the world the gift of faith to all peoples, He whose servants are as preachers of life and light, as the Psalmist says, 'You make a way for Him who ascends over the setting sun.' 3 He ascends over the setting sun, when having set in His passion He manifests His greater glory in His rising. Anselm of Laon, Commentary On The Gospel of Saint Matthew, Chapter 8 1 Mt 8.16 2 Jn 8.12 3 Ps 67.5