I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
Ver. 46. I am come a light into the world] Not by participation only (as the apostles were the lights of the world, Mat 5:14) but by nature. How prodigiously blasphemous then was that bishop in the Council of Trent, that (in his oration there made) applied this text to the pope, who at that time was Paul the Third, an odious hypocrite. (Cornel. Episcop. Bipontin.)
That whosoever belleveth in me, &c.] And he that this way seeks the kingdom of heaven, must, with him in Justin, look for this Sun of righteousness in the west; that is, (lying upon the altar of his cross: so shall he become king of heaven. (Stratonis servus, ap. Justin.)