Saturday, January 8 : Duns Scotus Erigena

“John was not the light but came to testify to the light” (Jn 1:8). The forerunner of the Light was not the Light. So why is he popularly known as a “shining lamp” (Jn 5:35) and “morning star”? He was indeed a burning and shining lamp, but the flame he burned with, the light with which he shone, was not his own. He was the morning star, but he did not draw his own light from himself: the grace of him of whom he was the forerunner burned and shone within him. He was not the light but he participated in the light and what shone in him and through him did not come from him. (…) No creature, in fact, whether endowed with reason or intellect, is light of its own accord in its own substance. It shares in the one, true Light, the substantial Light that is everywhere and in everything that our minds see shining.

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