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Light was the first thing God created after the heavens and earth (
Light is a natural symbol for what is pleasant, good, or uplifting, or what is associated with important people and more especially with God. “Light is pleasant,” says the preacher (
Light is closely linked with God; indeed, God can be said to be light: “The Lord will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory” (
An extension of the Lord’s blessing is the light God gives to the world through his servants (
Sometimes light is connected with good behavior: “The path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day” (
In the New Testament. NT references to light are often figurative. Thus on the Damascus road Saul of Tarsus encountered “a light from heaven” (
The association of God with light is recurrent in the NT. The apostle John wrote that “God is light and in him is no darkness at all” (
Perhaps thinking of a then popular concept of a war between light and darkness, John wrote that the light shines in the darkness and adds that the darkness has not overcome it (
This way of looking at the Christian’s manner of life reaches its high point in the words of Jesus to his followers: “You are the light of the world” (
Darkness. Absence of light or brightness. Although the Bible seldom refers to literal darkness, a number of words translated “darkness” are used in a figurative or metaphorical sense.
When God created the world, there was no light until he commanded that light appear. He then made a distinction between light and its opposite, darkness, which he called night (
