John Cassian

But what should be said concerning the evening sacrifices, since even in the Old Testament, by the law of Moses, these are ordered to be offered continually? We can show that the morning whole-burnt offerings and evening sacrifices were offered every day continually in the temple, although with figurative offerings. This is seen from what is sung by David: "Let my prayer be set forth in your sight as the incense, and let the lifting up of my hands be an evening sacrifice." We can understand in a still more spiritual sense that the true evening sacrifice is what was given by the Lord our Savior in the evening to the apostles at the Supper, when he instituted the holy mysteries of the church, and what he himself, on the following day at the end of the ages, offered up to the Father by the lifting up of his hands for the salvation of the whole world. The spreading forth of his hands on the Cross is quite correctly called a "lifting up." For when we were all lying in Hades, he raised us to heaven, according to the word of his own promise, when he says: "When I have been lifted up from the earth, I will draw all people to myself."