In Amos: "And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, the sun shall set at noonday, and the day of light shall be darkened; and I will turn your feast-days into grief, and all your songs into lamentation." [4086] Also in Jeremiah: "She is frightened that hath borne children, and her soul hath grown weary. Her sun hath gone down while as yet it was mid-day; she hath been confounded and accursed: I will give the rest of them to the sword in the sight of their enemies." [4087] Also in the Gospel: "Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the earth even to the ninth hour." [4088]

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Footnotes:

[4086] Amos 8:9, 10. [Lardner, Credib., vol. vii. pp. 107-124.]

[4087] Jeremiah 15:9. [I admire Lardner's caution: possibly he carries it too far.]

[4088] Matthew 27:45. [See vol. iii. p. 58.]