Treasury of Scripture
long.
John 1:4-9 In him was life; and the life was the light of men...
John 3:19-21 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light...
John 8:12 Then spoke Jesus again to them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that follows me shall not walk in darkness...
John 12:35,36,46 Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness come on you...
Isaiah 42:6,7 I the LORD have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and give you for a covenant of the people...
Isaiah 49:6 And he said, It is a light thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel...
Isaiah 60:1-3 Arise, shine; for your light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen on you...
Malachi 4:2 But to you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and you shall go forth...
Matthew 4:16 The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
Luke 2:32 A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel.
Acts 13:47 For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set you to be a light of the Gentiles...
Acts 26:18,23 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God...
Ephesians 5:14 Why he said, Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.
Revelation 21:23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it...
I am. Our Lord here claims one of the titles given by the Jews to the Divine Being. So in Bammidbar Rabba,
John 9:15 Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said to them, He put clay on my eyes, and I washed...
, fol.
229:1, 'The Israelites said to God, O Lord of the universe, thou commandest us to light lamps to thee, yet thou art the light of the world.' It was also a title of the Messiah (see Isa.
49:6;
60:1;) and in a remarkable passage of Yalkut Rubeni, fol.
6, it is said on Ge.
John 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
, 'From this we learn that the holy and blessed God saw the light of the Messiah, and his works, before the world was created; and reserved it for the Messiah, and his generation, under the throne of his glory. Satan said to the holy and blessed God, For whom dost thou reserve that light which is under the throne of thy glory? God answered, For him who shall subdue thee, and overwhelm thee with confusion. Satan rejoined, Lord of the universe, shew that person to me. God said, Come, and see him. When he saw him, he was greatly agitated, and fell upon his face, saying, Truly this is the Messiah, who shall cast me and idolaters into hell.'
