* long.
  1:4-9  3:19-21  8:12  12:35,36,46  Isa 42:6,7  49:6  60:1-3  Mal 4:2 
  Mt 4:16  Lu 2:32  Ac 13:47  26:18,23  Eph 5:14  Re 21:23 
 * I am.
   Our Lord here claims one of the titles given by the Jews to
   the Divine Being.  So in Bammidbar Rabba,  15, fol. 229.1,
   "The Israelites said to God, O Lord of the universe, thou
   commandest us to light lamps to thee, yet thou art the light
   of the world."  It was also a title of the Messiah (see Isa
   49:6; 60:1;) and in a remarkable passage of Yalkut Rubeni,
   fol. 6, it is said on Ge 1:4, "From this we learn that the
   holy and blessed God saw the light of the Messiah, and his
   works, before the world was created; and reserved it for the
   Messiah, and his generation, under the throne of his glory.
   Satan said to the holy and blessed God, For whom dost thou
   reserve that light which is under the throne of thy glory?
   God answered, For him who shall subdue thee, and overwhelm
   thee with confusion.  Satan rejoined, Lord of the universe,
   shew that person to me.  God said, Come, and see him.  When he
   saw him, he was greatly agitated, and fell upon his face,
   saying, Truly this is the Messiah, who shall cast me and
   idolaters into hell."