Tertullian An Answer to the Jews

(and when did it "shudder exceedingly" except at the passion of Christ, when the earth also trembled to her centre, and the veil of the temple was rent, and the tombs were burst asunder?[284]

Tertullian On Fasting

And so the "pressure" must be maintained up to that hour in which the orb-involved from the sixth hour in a general darkness-performed for its dead Lord a sorrowful act of duty; so that we too may then return to enjoyment when the universe regained its sunshine.[83]

Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews

Also in the Gospel: "Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the earth even to the ninth hour."[277]

Recognitions of Clement I

In short, while He was suffering, all the world suffered with Him; for the sun was darkened, the mountains were torn asunder, the graves were opened, the veil of the temple was rent,[36]

Recognitions of Clement I

Meantime, when He had suffered, and darkness had overwhelmed the world from the sixth even to the ninth hour,[39]

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