Isaiah 60:19
Hebrew Bible
18 Sounds of violence will no longer be heard in your land, or the sounds of destruction and devastation within your borders. You will name your walls, ‘Deliverance’ and your gates, ‘Praise.’ 19 The sun will no longer supply light for you by day, nor will the moon’s brightness shine on you; the Lord will be your permanent source of light—the splendor of your God will shine upon you. 20 Your sun will no longer set; your moon will not disappear; the Lord will be your permanent source of light; your time of sorrow will be over. 21 All your people will be godly; they will possess the land permanently. I will plant them like a shoot; they will be the product of my labor, through whom I reveal my splendor.
Date: 7th-5th Centuries B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Revelation 21:23
New Testament
21 And the twelve gates are twelve pearls—each one of the gates is made from just one pearl! The main street of the city is pure gold, like transparent glass. 22 Now I saw no temple in the city, because the Lord God—the All-Powerful—and the Lamb are its temple. 23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God lights it up, and its lamp is the Lamb. 24 The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their grandeur into it.
Date: 92-96 C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... Aaron, however, espouses the view that “historical intervention” is what the writer of Psalm 84:11 intends. He maintains that the psalmist (by stating that “God is shield” or “God is sun”) predicates that YHWH literally is sun or shield. While Aaron denies that “God is sun/shield” asserts an ontological identity between YHWH and sun/shield, he nonetheless holds that ontological identity is not the only genuine alternative to metaphorical signification ... Other scholars, conversely, view the language comprising this psalm as metaphorical. See Schneiders, Women and the Word, 26; Marvin E. Tate, Psalms 51-100, Word Biblical Commentary, volume 20, 361 ... Tate notes that although “sun” evidently is not utilized metasememically [symbolically] for YHWH elsewhere, the term is a rather “common royal epithet” found in Ancient Near Eastern texts. Compare Isaiah 60:19; Revelation 21:23; 22:5 for Biblical texts that use sun imagery for God ..."
Foster, Edgar G.
Metaphor and Divine Paternity: The Concept of God's Fatherhood in the Divinae Institutiones of Lactantius
(p. 88) University of Glasgow , 2008
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