The number 9 can be variously interpreted. At times, the
purely negative aspect is stressed, thus by Petrus Bungus, who
equates 9 with pain and sadness and points out that the ninth
psalm contains a prediction of the Antichrist. The 9 is again
connected with suffering because of the fact that Christ died at
the ninth hour of the day (from sunrise, i.e., 3 P.M.). This
hour was the none, subsequently marked by a special monastic devotion, while the word itself has become our noon.