* long.
1:4-9 3:19-21 8:12 12:35,36,46 Isa 42:6,7 49:6 60:1-3 Mal 4:2
Mt 4:16 Lu 2:32 Ac 13:47 26:18,23 Eph 5:14 Re 21:23
* I am.
Our Lord here claims one of the titles given by the Jews to
the Divine Being. So in Bammidbar Rabba, 15, fol. 229.1,
"The Israelites said to God, O Lord of the universe, thou
commandest us to light lamps to thee, yet thou art the light
of the world." It was also a title of the Messiah (see Isa
49:6; 60:1;) and in a remarkable passage of Yalkut Rubeni,
fol. 6, it is said on Ge 1:4, "From this we learn that the
holy and blessed God saw the light of the Messiah, and his
works, before the world was created; and reserved it for the
Messiah, and his generation, under the throne of his glory.
Satan said to the holy and blessed God, For whom dost thou
reserve that light which is under the throne of thy glory?
God answered, For him who shall subdue thee, and overwhelm
thee with confusion. Satan rejoined, Lord of the universe,
shew that person to me. God said, Come, and see him. When he
saw him, he was greatly agitated, and fell upon his face,
saying, Truly this is the Messiah, who shall cast me and
idolaters into hell."
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