est, Dominum Jesum Christum quem numquam suscepit vesper, sed lux sempiterna est, et ipsc super in luce est”; and Bede: “Christus est stella matutina qui nocte saeculi transacta lucem vitae sanctis promittit et pandet aeternam”). The last explanation is surely right, on the evidence of the Apocalypse itself; see 22:16 ἐγώ εἰμι … ὁ ἀστὴρ ὁ λαμπρὸς ὁ πρωϊνός. If the Churches are λυχνίαι and their angels ἀστέρες, the Head of the Church may fitly be the ἀστὴρ ὁ πωϊνός, the brightest