Holy Scripture
Genesis 1:17
A church father on this verse
“As those lights of heaven that we see have been set "for signs and seasons and days and years," that they might give light from the firmament of heaven to those who are on the earth, so also Christ, illuminating his church, gives signs by his precepts, that one might know how, when the sign has been received, to escap…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
17And God placed them in the firmament of the heaven, so as to shine upon the earth,
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15And let them be for light in the firmament of the heaven, so as to shine upon the earth, and it was so.
16And God made the two great lights, the greater light for regulating the day and the lesser light for regulating the night, the stars also.
— Genesis 1:17 —
18and to regulate day and night, and to divide between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
19And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.