Enlightment And Glory

Quia Deus qui dixit de tenebris lumen fulgere, illuxit in cordibus nostris ad illuminationem cognitionis gloriae Dei in facie Christi Jesu. Hoc dicit, quia misericordia Dei factum est, ut nos, inquit, qui fuimus incredibiles in ignorantia, hoc est, in tenebris, per nos daret Deus lumen caeteris gentibus. Quantum se adhuc humiliat, ut Dei solius et Christi gloriam praeferat? Illuminatur enim, ut cognitionem habeant gloriae Dei per Christum. Ideo gloriae Dei ait cognitionem, id est, non Dei solius, sed et Christi, qui est gloria ejus; ut significaret non solum Deum cognosci, sed et opera ejus et misericordiam et providentiam, qua condidit et salvavit genus humanum, visus in Christo per gloriam virtutis suae. Ambrosiaster, In Epistolam Beati Pauli Ad Corinthios Secundum, Caput IV Source: Migne PL 17.290b

Because God, He who spoke into the darkness and made it light, enlightened our hearts with the illumination of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.' 1 He says this: because it is by the mercy of God that through us who were unbelievers in ignorance, that is, in darkness, that God has given light to the other peoples. And how much does he still humble himself, that he speaks of God alone and the glory of Christ? For he is illuminated, that they might have knowledge of the glory of God through Christ. Therefore he speaks of the knowledge of the glory of God, that is, not of God alone, but even of Christ, who is His glory, that he signify that not only God be known, but His work and His mercy and His providence, by which He established and saved the human race, seen in Christ by the glory of His virtue. Ambrosiaster, Commentary On The Second Letter of Saint Paul To The Corinthians, Chapter 4 1 2 Cor 4.6