2 Corinthians 4:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

Blinded

2 Corinthians 3:14

John 12:40

Lest

The image

Hebrews 1:3

Shine

2 Corinthians 4:6

2 Peter 1:19

1 John 2:8

General references

Matthew 13:13

Luke 24:45

John 8:27

Bible References

Blinded

but their minds were blinded. For to this day in reading the old covenant the same vail remains, not taken away because it is taken away in Christ;

He has blinded their eyes, and hardened their hearts, that they should not see with their eyes and understand with their hearts, and be converted, and I should cure them.

Lest

For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

how shall not the ministry of the spirit be glorious?

THEN Jesus spoke to them again, saying, I am the light of the world; he that follows me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life.

Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while is the light with you; walk while you have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; for he that walks in darkness knows not where he goes.

to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among the sanctified by faith in me.

to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory,

according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been intrusted.

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and of our Saviour Jesus Christ,

The image

And the Word became flesh and tabernacled with us and we beheld his glory, a glory as of an only child with a father, full of grace and truth.

and he that beholds me beholds him that sent me.

Jesus said to him, Have I been so long a time with you and have you not known me, Philip? He that has seen me has seen the Father; and how say you, Show us the Father?

If I had not done among them the works which no other one has done, they would not have had sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

who being in the form of God thought it not a robbery to be equal with God;

who is the likeness of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation,

who being the brightness of his glory and the express image of his substance, and sustaining all things by the word of his power, having made a purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high,

Shine

For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

And we have the more sure prophetic word, to which you will do well to attend, as to a light shining in a dark place, till the day dawns and the day-star arises in your hearts,

Again, a new commandment I write you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is past and the true light now appears.

General references

For this reason I speak to them in parables; because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor understand.

Then he opened their understanding to understand the Scriptures,

They understood not that he spoke to them of the Father.