Also the increasing light coming with every new discovery and invention. Be thankful for the higher lights of civilization. There is sunlight even when there is not sunshine. Be thankful for the lights forming part of the physical creation. THE DARKNESS THIS LIGHT IS MEANT TO ILLUMINATE. What are sun, moon, and stars, and all lamps compared with this light? John is speaking here for the eye of the heart. The Word is a living and light giving one. He speaks of the Word that he may tell us of the Life in it, and of the Life that he may tell us of the Light in it. And then we perceive that John, correspondingly, would lead his readers to think of the greatest of all lights which come from God. "God said, Let there be light: and there was light:" so runs the third verse of the Book of Genesis. This resemblance prompts us to look for other resemblances. "In the beginning was the Word:" so runs the first verse in the Gospel of John. Young In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth: so runs the first verse of the Book of Genesis. What is Gained by Defending the Eternal Pre-Existence of Jesus ChristÄ. The Word of Scripture Concerning the Beginning The Resemblance Between the Written and the Personal Word The Relation of This Revelation with that of Genesis 1 The Nature of Christ Perfectly Similar and Equal to that of the Eternal Father The Heavenly Analogy of the Connection of Speech with Reason The Divinity of Christ Revealed in the Gospel of John The Deity of Christ an Impossible Invention The Manifestations of the Light of the Word in Darkness The Historical Parallel to the Truth of the Text The Dense Darkness of the Period When the True Light Appe God's Candles are and have Been Ever Shining