because it is God who said, Out of darkness light is to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.2 Corinthians 4:6 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleFor God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness - The apostle refers here to Genesis 1:3. For when God created the heavens and the earth Darkness was on the face of the deep; and God said, Let There Be Light; and there was light. Thus he caused the light to shine out of darkness.
Hath shined in our hearts - He has given our hearts the glorious light of the Gospel, as he has given the world the glorious light of the sun. As sure, therefore, as God is the author of the light and the creator of the universe, so sure is he the author of the Gospel; it is no human invention; and is as far beyond the power of man's wisdom and might, as the creation of the world is beyond all created power, energy, and skill.
The light of the knowledge - To give us that light, that we might enlighten others; this appears to me to be the design of the apostle's προς φωτισμον της γνωσεως της δοξης του Θεου, or, as Dr. Whitby paraphrases it, to give us, and enable us to give to others, the light of the knowledge of God through Christ.
In the face of Jesus Christ - It is in and through Jesus that we can receive the Divine light, and it is in and by him that we can be made partakers of the Divine glory. The light mercy, holiness, and glory of God, are reflected upon and communicated to us through Jesus the Christ; and it is εν προσωπῳ, in the appearance and person of Jesus Christ that these blessings are communicated to us.
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who.
Genesis 1:3,14,15 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light...
Psalm 74:16 The day is yours, the night also is yours: you have prepared the light and the sun.
Psalm 136:7-9 To him that made great lights: for his mercy endures for ever...
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
hath. Gr. is he who hath. shined.
Ephesians 1:17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory...
Ephesians 5:8 For you were sometimes darkness, but now are you light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
2 Peter 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto you do well that you take heed, as to a light that shines in a dark place...
the light.
2 Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ...
2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory...
Exodus 33:18-23 And he said, I beseech you, show me your glory...
Exodus 34:5-7 And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD...
Psalm 63:2 To see your power and your glory, so as I have seen you in the sanctuary.
Psalm 90:16 Let your work appear to your servants, and your glory to their children.
Isaiah 6:1-3 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple...
Isaiah 35:2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given to it...
Isaiah 40:5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.
Isaiah 60:2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise on you...
John 11:40 Jesus said to her, Said I not to you, that, if you would believe, you should see the glory of God?
Acts 7:55,56 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God...
1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people...
in the.
Luke 10:22 All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knows who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son...
John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelled among us, (and we beheld his glory...
John 12:41 These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.
John 14:9,10 Jesus said to him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet have you not known me, Philip? he that has seen me has seen the Father...
Philippians 2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
Colossians 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
Hebrews 1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power...
1 Peter 1:12 To whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they did minister the things...
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