Luke 1:78

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III

This same God, after His great goodness, poured His compassion upon us, through which compassion "the Day-spring from on high hath looked upon us, and appeared to those who sat in darkness and the shadow of death, and has guided our feet into the way of peace; "[96]

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V

For how can he be good, who does not give from what belongs to himself? Or how can he be just, who snatches away the goods of another? And in what way can sins be truly remitted, unless that He against whom we have sinned has Himself granted remission "through the bowels of mercy of our God," in which "He has visited us"[147]

Tertullian An Answer to the Jews

while the light from on high would beam upon us who were sitting in darkness, and were being detained in the shadow of death.[88]