– On the first day of creation, God created the night:
Gen 1,3-5 : God called the light day and the darkness night. Evening came and then morning: it was the first day.
– In the bedroom, he created the light to illuminate it:
Gen 1,16-19 : God made two great lights: the greater one to preside over the day and the smaller one to preside over the night.
– Transmits the glories of God to the next day:
Ps 18,1-3 : The heavens tell the glory of God. Day to day transmits this message, and night to night repeats it.
Dn 3,71 : Nights and days, bless the Lord, praise him and exalt him forever!
– It is a suitable time for contemplation, prayer and revelations from God:
Gen 28,11-12 : He arrived at a place and spent the night there, because the sun had already set.
1Sm 3,3-4 : Samuel was resting in the Temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was located.
1Kings 3,5-6 : The Lord appeared to him in a dream in Gibeon during the night and said to him: “Ask me what you want me to give you”.
Ps 133 :1 : Bless the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, who dwell in the house of the Lord during the hours of the night.
Is 26,9 : My soul desires you during the night and my spirit seeks you from the morning.
Lk 2,8-9 : There were shepherds nearby who kept watch over their flock in the fields during the night watches.
Lc 6,12 : In those days, Jesus withdrew to a mountain to pray, and there he spent the whole night praying to God.
Acts 16:9: At night, Paul had a vision: a Macedonian, standing.
– By analogy with the opposition between light and darkness, the night came to indicate sin, and the day, virtue:
Job 17,1-3 : My spirit is consumed, my days are erased, I only have the tomb!
Mq 3,6 : Therefore, instead of visions, you will have night, and darkness instead of revelations.
Rom 13:12 : Let us put off the works of darkness and put on the weapons of light.
1Th 5,5-6 : For all of you are children of light and children of the day. We are not of the night or darkness.
