On Jan 4, 2008 11:25 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote: > We know TRPjr. has read Dante. > God as light is an old metaphor---which may go back to Dante.! It goes back a little further... 1 John 1:5 - This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that GOD IS LIGHT, and in him is no darkness at all.