Easter Morning

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>Ray says nobody in his right mind would ever consider any dawn to be

"dark",

>no matter what the weather conditions are,


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Ed

Shakespeare, Henry James, John Milton, Henry Fielding, and just about every
other great author in English were whackos, I guess.

Poobah
This is pure sophistry; of course in English there could be a "dark morn" or
a "dark sunrise" but that doesn't win you any points in the real debate,
because that's not what John's text implies:

"The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene *early, when it was yet
dark,* unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the
sepulchre." (Jn20:1, KJV, *My emphasis*)

The combination of "early", plus "yet dark", has a clear interpretation.  It
is always *possible* that the author meant something else, but then he isn't
a very good writer, is he? And if you consider the text divinely inspired,
we have to ask why a perfect God could inspire such imperfect prose.

Your interpretation would be valid if the text said:
"They went to the tomb early after that dark sunrise; a foul gloom hung in
the air"

But it doesn't.  If I told you "I got up early and it was still dark out," I
don't think you would assume I meant it was overcast, regardless of whether
I was Milton or the Bard.

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