9 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, 2Co_3:18, such as maketh a man to be a child of light, Eph_5:8; "partaker of the inheritance of the saints in light," Col_1:12. Any created understanding at most is but (as Aeschylus saith of fire stolen by Prometheus) ðáíôå÷íïõ ðõñïò óåëáò , a beam of that light essential.