111. As without the Word there is no rational conception of the Lord, and thus no salvation, and when the Word with the Jewish nation was entirely falsified and defiled, and made as of none effect, it therefore pleased the Lord to descend from heaven; and, coming into the world, to fulfil the Word, and thus to renew and restore it, giving light again to the inhabitants of the earth, according to His own words:
The people which sat in darkness saw a great light (lumen); and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light (lux) is sprung up. Matt. iv 16; Isa. ix 2.
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