“Or, Whilst the bridegroom tarried, and the Word comes not speedily to the consummation of this life, the senses suffer, slumbering and moving in the night of the world; and sleep, as energizing feebly, and with no quick sense. Yet did those wise virgins not quit their lamps, nor despair of hoarding their oil.”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
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5While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
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3They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
4But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
— Matthew 25:5 —
6And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
7Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.