2 Corinthians 4:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Shined

Ephesians 1:17

Ephesians 5:8

2 Peter 1:19

The light

1 Peter 2:9

In the

General references

Matthew 13:16

Luke 24:45

John 12:45

Bible References

Shined

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation, whereby ye may know him:

you were heretofore altogether in the dark, but now being enlightned by the Lord, behave as children of light:

Besides, we have the more authentic accounts of the prophets, to which you do well in giving your attention, as to a lamp shining in an obscure place, till the day dawn, and the morning-star arises in your hearts.

The light

to those unbelievers, whose minds the God of this world has so blinded, that the glorious lustre of the gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, does not enlighten them.

but as we lay aside the veil, the divine light gradually informs the mind, according as we attend to that spiritual sense, which points out the Lord.

Jesus said to her, did I not tell you, that if you would believe, you should see the glory of God?

but he, full of the holy spirit, fix'd his eyes towards heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.

and this they were destin'd to. but you are the chosen race, you are kings and priests, the holy nation, the peculiar people, that you might display his glory, who called you out

In the

the management of every thing is committed to me by my father: no one knows what character the son is invested with, except the father; nor who the father is, except the son, and he to whom the son shall please to reveal it.

The Logos became incarnate, and had his tabernacle among us, being full of grace and truth; and we contemplated his glory, such glory as the Monogenes derived from the father.

these things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.

Jesus said to him, have I been with you so long, and don't you know me yet? Philip, he that hath seen me, hath seen the father; why then do you say, shew us the father?

who tho' he was the image of God, did not affect to appear with divine majesty, but divested himself thereof,

he is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of the whole creation.

who being the radiation of his glory, and the imprest image of his substance, and governing all things by his powerful command, after having himself made expiation for our sins, sat down on the right hand of the divine majesty in the highest heavens.

and were answer'd, that it was not they, but we, who were concern'd in the events which they predicted, events which have been now represented to you by those, whom the holy spirit from heaven inspired to preach the gospel to you: a secret which the angels desire to penetrate into.

General references

but happy are you that your eyes have sight; and that your ears have their hearing.

then he open'd their minds to make them understand the scriptures, and said to them,

and he that contemplates me, contemplates him that sent me.