What the “Morning” Means

Augustine says (On The Trinity, p20, Chapter 17 on his manuscript, Dalcassion Publishing Company)

“And this is life eternal. That they might know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent. This shall be when the Lord shall have come, and shall have brought to, light the hidden things of darkness; when the darkness of this present mortality and corruption shall have passed away. Then will be our morning, which is spoken of in the Psalm, In the morning I will direct my prayer to You, and will contemplate You.  Of this contemplation  I understand it is to be said, when He shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; that is, when he shall have brought the just, over whom now, living by faith,  The Mediator between God and man, , the man Jesus Christ, reigns, to the contemplation of God. Even the Father…”

Now, for me this was an incredible revelation. When God speaks of the morning He is not talking about “daybreak”, He is talking about the breaking of a new day. That is to say, after the Lord has come again, it will be the dawning of a new day without corruption of the old darkness that encompasses the earth, man’s existence, when His time will have been fulfilled.  

Another aspect of this is earlier Augustine writes on the word until.  Philippians