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nor will the rising of the moon give you light by night, but the Lord will be for you an everlasting light and your God your glory.” 5.72 It must be said thus also: those who are not light need that which illumines them, not needing this when they themselves become light. Since, therefore, in the age to come, allegorically called day, “the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father,” having been shown to be light, illuminating themselves, they live in day, not needing external light. And so, in this life, those who have kindled for themselves the light of knowledge so as to hear from the Savior, “You are the light of the world,” live in a brilliant state, being light and day not from elsewhere but from itself, concerning which the chorus of the saints sings, saying: “Let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us.” 5.73 To this spiritual Jerusalem which has great holiness the prophet says, being divinely inspired and having the Holy Spirit: “Shine, shine, O Jerusalem, for your light has come to you, and the glory of your God has risen upon you. Behold, darkness and gloom will cover the earth over the nations; but upon you the Lord will appear, and the glory of your God has risen upon you. And kings will walk by your light, and nations by your brightness.” 5.74 For how is she not brilliant and enlightened to whom these things are announced, she who has become light from being enlightened, so as also to manifest divine brightness? 5.75 Consider if it is possible also to apply the prophetic utterance before us in this way. When the Lord Almighty comes with His saints, the state of those being judged will be such that they have no light, because each one is ignorant of his own affairs, so that they need “Him who brings to light the hidden things of darkness and discloses the purposes of the heart,” in order that, “having been made manifest before the judgment seat of Christ,” they may receive what is due for what they did through the body, whether good or evil. 5.76 And since there will be turmoil and confusion for those being judged, being confounded and tempest-tossed, in one day there will be cold and frost, men's hearts failing them for expectation of the grim and painful things to come, as the Gospel declares. 5.77 The day of the Lord, being continuous and not interrupted by an intervening night, will be known to God, “who is light and has no darkness in Him,” so that for this reason it is neither day nor night, but the day is eternal, the sun no longer making the day, nor the moon illuminating the night, according to the prophet, as was recently said, the Lord being everlasting light. And even if at some time it should seem to some that the day is receiving its end, toward evening there will be light, God illuminating all things. 5.78 The day so understood and existing will be known to the Lord, being worthy of His knowledge, according to which meaning the saying is written: “The Lord knows those who are His.” This utterance is not opposed to the one in the Gospel, which goes thus: “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels, nor the Son, but the Father alone.” Many things concerning the gospel text have been considered in the commentaries on Matthew according to a previous composition, which the lover of what is good will know upon encountering them, with only this being said now, that we must understand ‘to know’ and ‘to not be known’ as referring either to different things, or understand ‘to be known’ and ‘not’ according to different meanings. 5.79 Zach. XIV, 8-9: And in that day living water will go out from Jerusalem, half of it toward the first sea and half of it toward the last sea, and in summer and in spring it shall be so. And the Lord will be king over all the earth. 5.80 In the day known to the Lord, living water will go out from Jerusalem, “the heavenly city of the living God,” half of which will be toward the first sea, the remaining half reaching to the last sea, of the same

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