Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The verse is referring to the Assyrian invasion of Northern Israel and predicting that after this dark period a new light would shine. Matthew implies that this is the messiah, France notes that the traditional view was that Isaiah was referring to events immediately after the departure of the Assyrians. [ 1 ]
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops. The New International Version translates the passage as: What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the roofs.
R. T. France explains the verse, in context with the subsequent verse 35: "The sword Jesus brings is not here military conflict, but, as vv. 35–36 show, a sharp social division which even severs the closest family ties. … Jesus speaks here, as in the preceding and following verses, more of a division in men’s personal response to him."
I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. Jesus again claims to be Light of the World in John 9:5, during the miracle of healing the blind at birth, saying: [2] When I am in the world, I am the Light of the World.
John McEvilly writes that, "These words have the same object as the preceding, to stimulate the Apostles to shine as lights before the world, to enlighten the surrounding darkness, and impart to all the world the light of a holy, spotless life, and of pure teaching. As a city on a hill cannot be hid, so neither can the Apostles, from their ...
However "the darkness did not comprehend it", since people, blinded by their passions, could not grasp the light of reason. Or perhaps it may mean the lights of grace, "against which obstinate sinners shut their eyes." [3] The concept of a struggle between light and darkness is expressed in the NIV wording above and similarly in the Revised ...
On 18 January 2010, ABC News reported Trijicon was placing references to verses in the Bible in the serial numbers of sights sold to the United States Armed Forces. [1] The "book chapter:verse" cites were appended to the model designation, and the majority of the cited verses are associated with light in darkness, referencing Trijicon's specialization in illuminated optics and night sights.
This verse presents the opposite stating that an evil eye plunges one into darkness. The evil eye was both an expression for jealousy and for stinginess (cf. Matthew 20:15 [ 1 ] ). The verse puts great emphasis on the depth of darkness that a poor spiritual eye will place a person in, because placing too much focus on wealth or possessions can ...