comes, He is not received or acknowledged. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can neither comprehend nor overthrow it, though it tries to do so. The gospel tells the story of what happened when the true light came into the world, the only light, the light that shines on every human being, the light in which things are seen as they are and reality is distinguished from illusion. Those who were confident that they could see turn out to be the blind, and those who knew that they were
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