O quam grandi distantia divisit Deus inter lucem et tenebras! Beatus protomartyr Stephanus passurus mortem pro veritate, vidit caelos apertos, vidit gloriam Dei, et Jesum stantem a dextris Dei; et ubi erat futurus ipse post mortem, ibi oculos mentis ante mortem, quo laetior occumberet, misit.
Oh! how far asunder hath God separated light and darkness! The blessed first martyr Stephen ready to suffer death for the truth saw the heavens open, saw the glory of God and Jesus standing on the right hand of God; and to the end he might more joyfully die, fixed the eyes of his mind before death there where he was to be after death.
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