Light of the World

English

Proper noun

Light of the World

  1. (Christianity) An epithet for Jesus Christ
    • 1736, John Bunyan, Samuel Wilson, The Works: Being Several Discourses upon Various divine subjects: Volume 1, page 8:
      . . . for it is evident, that Christ, the true Light of the World, was not born till about Four thousand years after the World was made.
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