1An ancient evening hymn praises Jesus Christ as the joyful light of the Father's glory and gives glory to the Trinity at lamp-lighting.
About this work
Author
Anonymous
Attribution
authentic · Anonymous. The hymn is first quoted in the fourth century (Basil, On the Holy Spirit 29.73, calls it already ancient); Routh dates it to the second or third century.
Standing
Not honoured as a saint or in a church calendar by the Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant traditions. Anonymous or pseudonymous work read and used in the church of its time.
Date
second or third century (approximate)
Written at
unknown, unknown (disputed)
Language
Greek
Genre
poem
Reference system
one unit (the whole hymn)
SBL abbreviation
Hymn. vesp.Not yet checked
Clavis
CPG number not yet checked
Text from
Martin Joseph Routh, ed., Reliquiae sacrae, 2nd ed., vol. 3 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1846), p. 515, from the Internet Archive scan (Printed edition in the public domain)