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Or perhaps it may mean the lights of grace, "against which obstinate sinners shut their eyes." [3] The concept of a struggle between light and darkness is expressed in the NIV wording above and similarly in the Revised Standard Version. [4] J. B. Phillips offers the reading "The light still shines in the darkness and the darkness has never put ...
Augustine: "What Light it is to which John bears witness, he shows himself, saying, That was the true Light." [3]Chrysostom: "Or thus; Having said above that John had come, and was sent, to bear witness of the Light, lest any from the recent coming of the witness, should infer the same of Him who is witnessed to, the Evangelist takes us back to that existence which is beyond all beginning ...
Matthew 5:12 is the twelfth verse of the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.It is the tenth verse of the Sermon on the Mount.This verse is generally seen as part of an expansion of the eight Beatitude, others see it as the second half of the ninth Beatitude, a small group feel it is the tenth Beatitude and thus brings to a close a second Decalogue.
This term can mean generous, [citation needed] and its opposite in the next verse clearly means miserly. [citation needed] This verse can thus mean one is "full of light" if one's eye, i.e. conscience, is generous. This wording links this verse to the idea of the evil eye, which was often termed the "ungenerous eye". By this interpretation the ...
Light and darkness in John's Gospel is an antithesis that has symbolic meaning and is essential to understanding the author of John. The fourth gospel expresses certain ideas using the antithesis more frequently than any other writings in the New Testament.
The Bible associates light with God, truth, and virtue; darkness is associated with sin and the Devil. Painters such as Rembrandt portrayed divine light illuminating an otherwise dark world. [1] War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness, part of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The parable is the source of the proverb "to hide one's light under a bushel", the use of the word "bushel", an obsolete word for bowl (now relegated to usage as a unit of measure), appearing in William Tyndale's translation of the New Testament: "Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick, and it lighteth ...
Effect of light from the rose window in Bari Cathedral, recurring in religious architecture to metaphorically allude to the spiritual light. [1]In theology, divine light (also called divine radiance or divine refulgence) is an aspect of divine presence perceived as light during a theophany or vision, or represented as such in allegory or metaphor.