The thought here is that the darkness did not lay hold of, did not appropriate the light, so as itself to become light the thought there is that individuals did not recognise it. The Light is ever shining, ofttimes, indeed, coloured as it passes through the differing minds of different men, and meeting us across the space that separates continents, and the time that separates ages, in widely varying hues but these shades pass into each other, and in the harmony of all is the pure light of truth.Ĭomprehended it not.-The meaning of this word differs from that rendered "knew not" in John 1:10. The emphatic present declares that the light still, always, "shineth in darkness." True are those words of patriarch, lawgiver, prophet, as they followed the voice which called, or received God's law for men, or told forth the word which came to them from Him true are they of every poet, thinker, statesman, who has grasped some higher truth, or chased some lurking doubt, or taught a nation noble deeds true are they of every evangelist, martyr, philanthropist, who has carried the light of the gospel to the heart of men, who has in life or death witnessed to its truth, who has shown its power in deeds of mercy and of love true are they of the humblest Christian who seeks to walk in the light, and from the sick-chamber of the lowliest home may be letting a light shine before men which leads them to glorify the Father which is in heaven. There, too, the Sun of Righteousness has shone, is ever shining but as the Apostle looks back on the history of the pre-Christian world, or, it may be, looks back on the earthly ministry of Christ Himself, he seeks in vain for the victory of truth, for the hearts of nations, or of men, penetrated through and through with heaven's light, and he sums up the whole in one sad negation, "The darkness comprehended it not." Yet in this very sadness there is firm and hopeful faith. ![]() But in the moral chaos, too, God said, "Let there be light and there was light." The first struggle of light into and through darkness until the darkness received it, rolled back before it, passed away into it-the repeated comprehension of light by darkness, as in the dawn of every morning the night passes into day, and the earth now shrouded in blackness is now bathed in the clear white light of an Eastern sun-this has its counterpart in the moral world. The outer darkness casts its gloom on every page. The description of Paradise occupies but a few verses of the Old Testament. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.Īnd the light in the darkness did shine, and the darkness did not perceive it.Įllicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) And the light shineth in darkness.-The vision of brightness is present but for a moment, and passes away before the black reality of the history of mankind. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overpowered it. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.Īnd the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome it. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has never put it out.Īnd the light shines on in the darkness, and the darkness has never put it out.Īnd the light shined in the darkness, and the darkness did not perceive it.Īnd the light shines on in the darkness, but the darkness has not mastered it. ![]() The light shines in the dark, and the dark has never extinguished it. The light keeps shining in the dark, and darkness has never put it out.Īnd the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. That light shines in the darkness, yet the darkness did not overcome it.Īnd the light shineth in the darkness and the darkness apprehended it not.Īnd The Light is shining in the darkness, and the darkness did not overtake it. That light shines in the darkness, and yet the darkness did not overcome it. The Light shines on in the darkness, and the darkness did not understand it or overpower it or appropriate it or absorb it. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.Īnd the Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overtake it. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.Īnd the Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.Īnd the light shineth in darkness and the darkness comprehended it not.Īnd the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.Īnd the Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not grasp it. ![]() The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
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