It was “then,” or therefore, that He found occasion to utter this truth, because the outer form in which He may clothe it was present to their minds. John 8:22, the deep darkness of misery into which apostate Israel should fall in the future, and to which the manifestation of Christ should put an end. It is the distinction between that in every man which welcomes the light, and claims kindred with it, and that in every man which eschews the light and would fain extinguish it for ever. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tcc/john-8.html. “The meaning of this symbolical rite was similar to that of the pouring out of the water, with which the account of that ceremony places it in connection. Now may each man, who has the sentence of Adam upon him, know that he is a kinsman of the Son of God. Even Scripture had declared that the light would first shine in Galilee. Johannes Chapter 8 - Afrikaans Ou Vertaling(1953) Afrikaans Ou Vertaling(1953) » Johannes » Chapter 8. Malachi 4:2. App-170. Bava Bathra, fol. Lampe: "Thus formerly walked the Egyptians in darkness, when they persecuted Moses and Israel, Exodus 14:20. οὐ μὴ περιπατήσει] The strongly attested, though not decisively confirmed, subjunctive περιπατήσῃ (so Lachmann, Tischendorf) would be the most usual word in the N. T. after οὐ μή, and might therefore all the more easily have displaced the future, which could hardly have been introduced through the following ἕξει, seeing that the latter word has no connection with οὐ μή. Now, as amidst the festivities of the water from Siloam Jesus cried, saying, “If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink,” so now amidst the blaze and the joyousness of this illumination, He proclaims, “I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD” - plainly in the most absolute sense. How long the interval was we do not know, but probably a few hours. "Commentary on John 8:12". To the doctrine he adds an exhortation, which he immediately afterwards confirms by a promise. "Whedon's Commentary on the Bible". τὸ φῶς τ. “He knows in whom he has believed, and that his adorable Saviour is able to keep that which he has committed to him.” He has learned to reckon death among the number of his friends, and to regard it as the door of entrance into his Father’s presence. Incomprehensible in its nature, itself the first visible, and that by which all things are seen, light represents to us Christ, Whose generation none can declare, but Who must shine upon us ere we can know aught aright, whether of things Divine or human. John 8:12. 12. How gentle and loving that guidance is, none who have not yielded to it can tell. 21. I was disturbed to find that some otherwise helpful commentaries skip this story completely—moving from the end of chapter 7 to 8:12 without bothering even to explain why they skip 8:1-11. 8For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.” “Leave her alone. The true journey of this life is here presented as a constant activity; in John 7:37, the source of this action is found in a constant receptivity. "And He shall look upon the earth, and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness." Who can question that the rising of Jesus Christ, was to the moral world what the sun is to the natural? Authorities differ as to whether this illumination was repeated, but all are agreed that it did not take place on the last evening. That which is here spoken in the form of a general sentence, Jesus, in ch. BibliographyBenson, Joseph. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/heg/john-8.html. References: John 8:12.—H. 2. [Note: Edersheim, 2:166.]. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/cgt/john-8.html. This was in the Court of the Women, the most public part of the temple. The object of Christ's work is to make men sons of light (John 12:36, John 12:46), and to endow them with the light of life (John 8:12). Wheresoever the Gospel has been published and received as a communication from God, the darkness has fled as night flies before the sun. Jud. It compares with the way He could say ‘but I say to you’ in the Matthew 5:22 etc. He that follows Me, He says, shall have; i.e. ‘I am the Light of the world.’ We have in Him a better guide through worse perplexities than theirs. II. Thus would they find life through faith in Him. According to tradition, Light was one of the names of the Messiah. In the original Greek text John 8:12 came directly after John 7:52. Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Commentary Critical and Explanatory - Unabridged, Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible, Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures. It hath hung the very grave with bright lamps, and rekindled the spirit of an almost quenched immortality. Jesus here made the second of His "I am" claims (cf. Isaiah paints, in ch. That thought opens out very wide fields, into which we must not even glance now; but I cannot help pausing here to repeat the remark already made, as to the gigantic and incomprehensible self-confidence that speaks here. Not only will our outward lives be illumined or guided from without, but our inward being will be filled with the brightness. The water poured out at the Feast of Tabernacles reminded them of the rock in the wilderness, and the brilliant light reminded them of the pillar of fire which guided them; but even as the water spoke also of the fountain which should pour forth its streams at the Messiah’s coming, so also did the light speak of the promised shining forth of God out of Zion. 2012. BibliographyConstable, Thomas. We know, too, that what He said about Himself was very unlike the language becoming a wise and humble religious teacher. He had also protectively led the Israelites through the wilderness in a cloudy pillar of fire (. Would they not be fatal to any one’s pretensions to be a teacher of religion or morality? Impatient eyes might look, and impatient spirits chafe-no matter. John 8:12. πάλιν οὖν. 1599-1645. [Once he was guided altogether by erroneous principles. BibliographyScofield, C. I. Passing from ‘life,’ let us look at ‘light, Expository Notes with Practical Observations on the New Testament. ], [The sun is of use to those only who have eyes to see it. It was, say they, the early morning (John 8:2) and the sun was just rising, to which these words τὸ φῶς τοῦ κόσ. Jesus, the Sun of righteousness, Malachi 4:2, is the fountain of all spiritual and eternal Life. 1870. The negative is in its strongest form, expressing “shall by no means,” “shall in no wise,” “walk in darkness.” The possibility is excluded from the thought. "Commentary on John 8:12". ], Part of the feast of Tabernacles was the lamp-lighting ceremony. BibliographyJohnson, Barton W. "Commentary on John 8:12". 4. Jesus und die Ehebrecherin 2 Frühmorgens aber kam Jesus wieder in den Tempel, und alles Volk kam zu ihm, und er setzte sich und lehrte sie. These are, on the one hand, Isaiah 9:1 : "The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light "(the sun is called, in Genesis 1:16, the "great light;" Malachi foretells, in ch. Johann Albrecht Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament. It was prophesied of him, that he should be a light to the Gentiles, and God’s salvation to the ends of the earth, Isaiah 46:6. They could not account for the sin and misery which they both saw and felt, nor could they prescribe any remedy for these disorders. ‘The glory’ had ceased from the house that now stood on Zion, and the light from between the cherubim. The sense of the present passage is that he who follows Christ, not only has a light which guides his feet, but that through participation in the Messianic life he actually possesses that light in himself. Copyright StatementThese files are public domain and are a derivative of an electronic edition that is available on the Christian Classics Ethereal Library Website.Original work done by Ernie Stefanik. Walk in darkness ( περιπετήσει ἐν τῇ σκοτία ). Concerning all by which He makes Himself known to eye, or mind, or heart, it must be said, ‘And there was the hiding of His power.’ The fire is ever folded in the cloud. O that all would make a just application of this thought to their own case, and resolve without delay to become followers of Christ [Note: John 12:35-36. "Commentary on John 8:12". Once again we shall find this mould, in which the truth shapes itself, in the ritual of the Feast of Tabernacles. Indeed, such is the corrupt nature of man, which is prone to seek itself, and hunt after vain-glory, that it may render a person's testimony of himself suspected; but Christ being true God, that cannot lie, and coming out of the bosom of his Father, as his ambassador, his testimony of himself is above all exception, and ought to be credited without further proof. We ought not to fear, therefore, lest it leave us in the middle of the journey, for it conducts us even to life The genitive of life, in accordance with the Hebrew idiom, is employed, instead of the adjective, to denote the effect; as if he had said, the life-giving light We need not wonder that such gross darkness of errors and superstitions prevails in the world, in which there are so few that have their eyes fixed on Christ. I am the light of the world. "R. Biba Sangorius saith, Light is the Do we desire to ascertain what that service is, which we owe to God? Light of the world—What suggested this topic will appear from the following statement in Stier’s Words of Jesus, vol. His own life would act as a light to show men that truth, and along with His teaching would lead them ‘out of darkness into His most marvellous light’ (1 Peter 2:9). Christ the Light of the world, with consequent discussions. 165). 7. 1851. "Commentary on John 8:12". 1863-1878. Eccl. And here note, 1. Speaking of the conversion of a soul to God, he says: -. Nay, at bottom, the light which is full of glory is therefore inaccessible, and the thick darkness in which He dwells is but the ‘glorious privacy’ of perfect light. BibliographySchaff, Philip. Large candelabra were lighted in the Court of the Women on the evening of the first day of the Feast in memory of the pillar of fire at the Exodus, and these flung their light over the whole city. They conceived that there were some beings superior to themselves; and them they called gods: but the characters they assigned to them, were such as would disgrace the lowest of the human race. 12. In special reference to these, the formally general propositions are here spoken. But Jesus, at the same time that he imparts light, bestows upon us also the organs of vision whereby we may behold it. Those who leave out the former narrative, which relates to the adulteress, (213) connect this discourse of Christ with the sermon which he delivered on the last day of the assembly. 1832. Furthermore men’s sins would be revealed in that light, and some would turn away from their sins and begin to live lives approved by God (John 3:19-21). College Press, Joplin, MO. Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. Ernst Hengstenberg on John, Revelation, Ecclesiastes, Ezekiel & Psalms. 12.] The first thing to notice is-the intention of the ceremonial to which our Lord here points as a symbol of Himself. As the pouring out of the water had furnished occasion for the promise of the living water, so the imagery of this verse was probably suggested by the illumination of the temple-courts on the evenings of the festival. John 8:22.—T. And so there is no need of artificial rules and distinctions, such as doctors invent for their own confusion. Commentary on John 8:12-16 (Read John 8:12-16) Christ is the Light of the world. 1983-1999. They are all to keep behind Him, He thinks, be they saints or sages, kings or beggars; and the liker they are to Himself, He thinks, the nearer they will be to perfectness and life. Here, as so often, stress is laid on the certainty and universality of the divine love on the one side, and the action of the human will on the other. Under this magnificent title Messiah was promised of old, Isaiah 42:6; Malachi 4:2, etc. 2:22. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/hac/john-8.html. ; the κἀγὼ ἀναπαύσω ὑμᾶς, and the καὶ εὑρήσετε ἀνάπαυσιν ταῖς ψυχαῖς ὑμῶν, point back to Jeremiah 31:2, where Jehovah says, "Even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest;" proving also that Jesus assumed divinity to Himself. The pillar of fire had been Israel’s light on the way to freedom, and it represented God Himself as present with His people. The response of the Church to the Lord's word here, "I am the light of the world," is this, "Neither is there salvation in any other," Acts 4:12. 12 Jezus richtte Zich weer tot de mensen en zei: ‘Ik ben het licht van de wereld. Package Inserts are provided for reference use only. They receive a totally new spiritual and moral outlook as His light shines in their hearts, and ‘they see’. & Jarchi in Psal xliii. American Standard Version Or, 2ndly, I judge no man; that is, at present. The sight, the hearing, the smell, the taste, the touch, have all their appropriate uses; and each has its peculiar office, in circumstances where the others can find no scope for exercise. Though He be the Light of the world, it is only the man who follows Him to whom He can give the light of life.
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