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17 If knowledge is light. He said, I am the way the truth and the life. If purity is light - even the devil could find no sin in him. His thought was original. He went behind the curtain of human intellect and produced truth which enabled him to speak as never man spake. His truth and principles which were the worlds light he projected out of his own Character. His teaching and example were both alike luminous. In his presence all preceding dispensations were explained. Cut off Christ and how impenetrable were the types and shadows of the old Test. Professing would be meaningless - and the providences which directed the Jewish Church would be reduced to the reign of Chance. But when he came a light shone on the mountains of Judea which never shone on Olympus or Parnassus or Horeb. He was the great Anti-type - the Substance of all the shadows.

 Men see for a moment how rapidly the darker shadows of Earth fled away.