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2 Cor. 4:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

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Gen. 1:3• ³And God said, Let there be light. And there was light. (Gen. 1:3)

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is he who hath.

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Gen. 1:3,14‑15• ³And God said, Let there be light. And there was light.
¹⁴And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens, to divide between the day and the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;
¹⁵and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens, to give light on the earth. And it was so. (Gen. 1:3,14‑15)

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Psa. 74:16• ¹⁶The day is thine, the night also is thine; *thou* hast prepared the moon and the sun: (Psa. 74:16)

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Psa. 136:7‑9• ⁷To him that made great lights, for his loving-kindness endureth for ever;
⁸The sun for rule over the day, for his loving-kindness endureth for ever,
⁹The moon and stars for rule over the night, for his loving-kindness endureth for ever: (Psa. 136:7‑9)

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Isa. 45:7• ⁷forming the light and creating darkness, making peace and creating evil: I, Jehovah, do all these things. (Isa. 45:7)

hath.

Gr. is he who hath.

shined.

Eph. 1:17• ¹⁷that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, would give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge of him, (Eph. 1:17)

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Eph. 5:8• ⁸for ye were once darkness, but now light in the Lord; walk as children of light, (Eph. 5:8)

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2 Peter 1:19• ¹⁹And we have the prophetic word made surer, to which ye do well taking heed (as to a lamp shining in an obscure place) until the day dawn and the morning star arise in your hearts; (2 Peter 1:19)

the light.

2 Cor. 4:4• ⁴in whom the god of this world has blinded the thoughts of the unbelieving, so that the radiancy of the glad tidings of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine forth for them. (2 Cor. 4:4)

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2 Cor. 3:18• ¹⁸But *we* all, looking on the glory of the Lord, with unveiled face, are transformed according to the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Lord the Spirit. (2 Cor. 3:18)

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Ex. 33:18‑23• ¹⁸And he said, Let me, I pray thee, see thy glory.
¹⁹And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thy face, and I will proclaim the name of Jehovah before thee; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.
²⁰And he said, Thou canst not see my face; for Man shall not see me, and live.
²¹And Jehovah said, Behold, there is a place by me: there shalt thou stand on the rock.
²²And it shall come to pass, when my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a cleft of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand, until I have passed by.
²³And I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see me from behind; but my face shall not be seen. (Ex. 33:18‑23)

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Ex. 34:5‑7• ⁵And Jehovah came down in the cloud, and stood beside him there, and proclaimed the name of Jehovah.
⁶And Jehovah passed by before his face, and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah *God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth,
⁷keeping mercy unto thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but by no means clearing the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation. (Ex. 34:5‑7)

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Psa. 63:2• ²To see thy power and thy glory, as I have beheld thee in the sanctuary; (Psa. 63:2)

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Psa. 90:16• ¹⁶Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy majesty unto their sons. (Psa. 90:16)

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Isa. 6:1‑3• ¹In the year of the death of king Uzziah, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.
²Seraphim were standing above him: each had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he flew.
³And one called to the other and said, Holy, holy, holy is Jehovah of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory! (Isa. 6:1‑3)

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Isa. 35:2• ²It shall blossom abundantly and rejoice even with joy and shouting: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon. They shall see the glory of Jehovah, the excellency of our God. (Isa. 35:2)

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Isa. 40:5• ⁵And the glory of Jehovah shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken. (Isa. 40:5)

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Isa. 60:2• ²For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples; but Jehovah will arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen on thee. (Isa. 60:2)

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John 11:40• ⁴⁰Jesus says to her, Did I not say to thee, that if thou shouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? (John 11:40)

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Acts 7:55‑56• ⁵⁵But being full of the Holy Spirit, having fixed his eyes on heaven, he saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God,
⁵⁶and said, Lo, I behold the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God. (Acts 7:55‑56)

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1 Peter 2:9• ⁹But *ye* are a chosen race, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a people for a possession, that ye might set forth the excellencies of him who has called you out of darkness to his wonderful light; (1 Peter 2:9)

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Luke 10:22• ²²All things have been delivered to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is but the Father, and who the Father is but the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son is pleased to reveal him. (Luke 10:22)

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John 1:14• ¹⁴And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we have contemplated his glory, a glory as of an only-begotten with a father), full of grace and truth; (John 1:14)

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John 12:41• ⁴¹These things said Esaias because he saw his glory and spoke of him. (John 12:41)

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John 14:9‑10• ⁹Jesus says to him, Am I so long a time with you, and thou hast not known me, Philip? He that has seen me has seen the Father; and how sayest thou, Shew us the Father?
¹⁰Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words which I speak to you I do not speak from myself; but the Father who abides in me, he does the works. (John 14:9‑10)

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Phil. 2:6• ⁶who, subsisting in the form of God, did not esteem it an object of rapine to be on an equality with God; (Phil. 2:6)

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Col. 1:15• ¹⁵who is image of the invisible God, firstborn of all creation; (Col. 1:15)

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Heb. 1:3• ³who being the effulgence of his glory and the expression of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, having made by himself the purification of sins, set himself down on the right hand of the greatness on high, (Heb. 1:3)

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1 Peter 1:12• ¹²To whom it was revealed, that not to themselves but to you they ministered those things, which have now been announced to you by those who have declared to you the glad tidings by the Holy Spirit, sent from heaven, which angels desire to look into. (1 Peter 1:12)

• We, who were once darkness, become light in the Lord. The apostle, no doubt, had vividly before him the never to be forgotten circumstances of his own conversion, suggestive of the light at mid-day, above the brightness of the sun shining from heaven. With this he brings in the allusion to Gen. 1:3, so as the better to contrast the light with the previous darkness, and connect all with the power, as well as the word, of God. (“Notes on 2 Corinthians 4:5-6” by W. Kelly)

• There is, therefore, in the gospel, as it reached the apostle, a wondrous double action: not only an in-shining of God in his own heart, but this also with a view to giving forth the light of the knowledge of God's glory in Christ's face. (“Notes on 2 Corinthians 4:5-6” by W. Kelly)

• The apostle, no doubt, had vividly before him the never to be forgotten circumstances of his own conversion, suggestive of the light at mid-day, above the brightness of the sun shining from heaven. With this he brings in the allusion to Gen. 1:3, so as the better to contrast the light with the previous darkness, and connect all with the power, as well as the word, of God....There is, therefore, in the gospel, as it reached the apostle, a wondrous double action: not only an in-shining of God in his own heart, but this also with a view to giving forth the light of the knowledge of God's glory in Christ's face. (“Notes on 2 Corinthians 4:5-6” by W. Kelly)

• The shining forth of this gospel of the glory of Christ is the work of God’s power-of the same God who, by His word alone, caused the light instantaneously to shine out of the midst of darkness. (“2 Corinthians 4” by J.N. Darby)

• This great change had been brought about by the operation of God in the heart of the apostle, whereby the light of the glory of God in the face of Jesus had shone into his dark soul, even as by the Word of God the physical light had dispelled the darkness when God formed the earth for man. (“2 Corinthians 4” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Because it is the Godk who spoke that out of darkness light should shinel who has shone in our hearts for the shining forthm of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "[it is] God."

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Lit. "who spoke light to shine out of darkness."

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"Shining forth," or "radiancy"; the same word as translated "radiancy" in ver. 4.

W. Kelly Translation

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because it is the God that bade light shinea out of darkness, who shone in our hearts for the illumination of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christb.

WK Translation Notes

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a

T. R. reads "hath shined." The oldest MSS. read "God that said, Out of darkness light shall shine."

b

Some MSS. read "Christ Jesus."