“He calls himself light both because he enlightens the souls of those who believe and because he was about to open the eyes of the one who was blind from birth.”
Theodore of Heraclea, 4th c. — FRAGMENTS ON JOHN 71
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5As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
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3Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
4I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
— John 9:5 —
6When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
7And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.