2. Because it makes all other things cleare and manifest.
3. Because it enlightens also the eyes of our minde, so that we are able to behold the heavenly mysteries of the kingdome of God.
Vse 1. This may serve to refute the Papists, who tax the Scriptures of obscurity.
2. To reprove and condemne those, that walk in the midst of this light, and yet perceive no more of the things of God, then as if they were in darknesse.
3. To exhort us, 1. To give God thanks for so great a benefit. For God now deales with us, as he did heretofore with the Israelites, in whose dwellings there was light, when in all the land of the Egyptians there was thick darknesse, Exodus 10.22,23. 2. To walke in this light, not to sleepe or have fellowship with the workes of darknesse, as it is Ephesians 5.8,11,14.
Doctrine 5. The whole condition of this our life hath much darknesse in it.
This is gathered from these words; A light shining in a darke place. We may see the explication of these words in Calvin.
Reason. Because without the light of the Scriptures and faith we are nothing but darknesse; seeing therefore this light is communicated unto us but imperfectly in this life, there must needs be as yet much darknesse.
Use 1. This may serve to admonish us, not to puffe up our selves with the opinion of knowledge, but humbly to acknowledge our imperfections.
2. To exhort us, so much the more diligently to give heed unto the light.