2The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
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The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
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.
I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us, …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)The first words of this chapter plainly refer to the close of the foregoing chapter, where every thing looked black and melancholy: Behold, trouble, and darkness, and dimness —very bad, yet not so bad but that to the upright there shall arise light in the darkness (Ps. 112:4) and at evening time it shall be light , Zech. 14:7. Nevertheless it shall not be such dimness (either not such for kind or…
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