That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
Ver. 9. Which lighteth every man, &c.] Or, that coming into the world, lighteth every man; all, with the light of reason,Job 35:11; his own, with a supernal and supernatural light (to know heavenly things is to ascend into heaven, Pro 30:3-4), an affecting, transforming light, 2 Corinthians 3:18, such as maketh a man to be a child of light, Ephesians 5:8; "partaker of the inheritance of the saints in light,"Colossians 1:12. Any created understanding at most is but (as Aeschylus saith of fire stolen by Prometheus) παντεχνου πυρος σελας, a beam of that light essential.