John 1:5 And the light shines in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. admitted the necessity of Divine interposition to teach man his duty. Zenophanes died at the age of nearly one hundred years, and is said to have thus expressed himself: "Oh, that mine were the deep mind, prudent and looking to both sides! Long, alas I have I strayed on the road of error, beguiled, and am now hoary of years, yet disposed to doubt and distraction of all kinds; for, wherever I turn to consider, I am lost in the One and All." , after all his researches, asserted that "Vain man hath no accurate knowledge which is possessed alone by the God, but that man learns from the God as the boy does from the man." saw and confessed his ignorance, and deplored the want of a superior direction. s last prayer was, "I entered the world corruptly, I have lived in it anxiously, I quit it in perturbation." confessed that no excellence could exist without a celestial afflation. Hierocles and Seneca tell us that but by the help of God no man can become either good or prosperous; so that he who would repudiate the necessity of a Divine revelation to lead him by the Holy Spirit into all truth arrogates a power which the greatest reasoners of ancient times disclaimed. Parallel Verses KJV: And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.WEB: The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome it. |
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