For he gave us the light, as a father he called us children, he saved us when we were perishing.
2What praise shall we give him? Or what payment of recompense for what we have received?
3We who were crippled in our understanding, worshiping stones and wood, gold and silver and bronze, works of men.
4And all our life was nothing but death.
5Wrapped in darkness and with such mist before our eyes, we recovered our sight.
6By his will he removed the cloud that covered us.
7For he had pity on us and saved us with mercy.
8For he saw in us much error and destruction, and we had no hope of salvation, except from him.