which in turn owes most to the OT. In the Fourth Gospel, however, Christ, not God, is the light, probably because of the christological emphasis of this gospel: over and over again what the OT predicates of God is predicated of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel (“I am the light of the world”; “I am the good shepherd”; “before Abraham was born, I am”; “I am the resurrection and the life”). 1:8 Having stated his counterhypothesis to the first claim, the author moves on to state, in another conditional sentence,
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