Holy Scripture
Genesis 15:12
A church father on this verse
“As he contemplated the wonderful things of God, Abraham was struck with fear, the fear that belongs to the perfect. It will be noted … that the ecstasy came upon him "toward sunset." The text suggests by this a progression, because the day of the present state has gone by for Abraham so that further progress might fol…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
12And about sunset a trance fell upon Abram, and lo! a great gloomy terror falls upon him.
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In context
10So he took to him all these, and divided them in the midst, and set them opposite to each other, but the birds he did not divide.
11And birds came down upon the bodies, even upon the divided parts of them, and Abram sat down by them.
— Genesis 15:12 —
13And it was said to Abram, Thou shalt surely know that thy seed shall be a sojourner in a land not their own, and they shall enslave them, and afflict them, and humble them four hundred years.
14And the nation whomsoever they shall serve I will judge; and after this, they shall come forth hither with much property.