On the eve

While shepherds watched their flocks by night and were filled with the expectation of the Messiah, Aix-en-Provence, Bibliothèque Municipale, 15 (13th century)

What is there on the eve, on the day before, the moment just prior to? It is an expectation, the messianism of the great arrival, the belief that the moment which follows will set off a new beginni…