At four o’clock in the morning we begin Mesonyktikon, the Midnight Office. The icon of Christ on the iconostasion is lit by a single icon lamp. He is vested as the Great High Priest, and crowned as the King of Kings. At the four corners of His throne are the four living creatures beheld by the Prophet Ezekiel — the angel, the lion, the ox, and the eagle. In the early Church, these became symbols of the Four Evangelists.
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