John Gill's Exposition on Luke 23:45

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the sun was darkened, etc.] There was an eclipse of it, which was preternatural, it being now full moon, and lasted three hours, and so total, as to darken the whole earth; and now was the prophecy in (<300809>Amos 8:9) literally fulfilled: and the vail of the temple was rent in the midst. The Persic version renders it, “the gate of the temple”; and so the Syriac version, “the face of the gate of the temple”; (see Gill on “<402751>Matthew 27:51”).

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