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In some Jewish interpretations, the light created here is a primordial light, different in nature from (and brighter than) that associated with the sun. [11] The light has also been interpreted metaphorically, [ 12 ] and has been connected to Psalm 104 (a "poem of creation" [ 13 ] ), where God is described as wrapping himself in light.
According to Goethe's concept, yellow undergoes a transition of light becoming darker when light reaches its peak; just as the Sun shines in the sky, it develops into a colourless white light. But the light deepens and evolves the yellow into an orange and then finally to a ruby-red hue. [5]
Sara Paretsky's short story "The Case of the Pietro Andromache" refers to the poem. "A touch here, a word there, and the guests disappeared like the hosts of Sennacherib." "Spike" Dearheart quotes her own version of the poem in the Discworld book Going Postal. "The Postman came down like a wolf on the fold / His cohorts all gleaming in azure ...
"Let there be light" is an English translation of the Hebrew יְהִי אוֹר (yehi 'or) found in Genesis 1:3 of the Torah, the first part of the Hebrew Bible. In Old Testament translations of the phrase, translations include the Greek phrase γενηθήτω φῶς ( genēthḗtō phôs ) and the Latin phrases fiat lux and lux sit .
John the Baptist came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world. (John 1:7-8: NKJV)
Lydia of Thyatira is most known as a "seller" or merchant of purple cloth, which is the likely reason for the Catholic Church naming her "patroness of dyers." It is unclear as to if Lydia simply dealt in the trade of purple dye or whether her business included textiles as well, [ 7 ] though all known icons of the saint depict her with some form ...
Illustration from the Bamberg Apocalypse of the Son of Man among the seven lampstands The Vision of John on Patmos by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1860). John's vision of the Son of Man, also known as John’s Vision of Christ, is a vision described in the Book of Revelation (Revelation 1:9–20) in which the author, identified as John, sees a person he describes as one "like the Son of Man" ().
The first parable Mark relates is the parable of the sower, with Jesus perhaps speaking of himself as a sower or farmer, [4] and the seed as his word. Johann Bengel refers to Christ as the sower, along with others who proclaim the gospel, [5] but the Jamieson, Fausset and Brown commentary notes that the question, "who is the sower?" is not ...