John 9:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Those words, As long as I am in the world, let us know what our Saviour meant by the day, mentioned 1 Thessalonians 9:4, viz. the time he should be in the world. Saith he, So long as I am in the world, it is a part of my work to show light to the world. Christ indeed, though he hath left the world, is yet the light of the world; but he was the light of the world, that part of the world especially where he was, in a more eminent sense, so long as the world enjoyed his bodily presence in it.