Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Corinthians 4:6

6 For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness , hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God , in the face of Jesus Christ .

The Holy Ghost in the New Testament often compareth the works of the new Creation by Jesus Christ, to the work of God in the old Creation; intimating to us, that the latter is as great a work of Providence and Divine Power, as the former: Eph. 4.24. The new man after God is said to be created in Righteousness and true Holiness. For as that is a Creation, which is the making of something out of Nothing, (as God created the Heavens and the Earth;) so the production of one thing out of another, which hath no fitness or aptitude to receive such a Form, is also a true Creation, and requireth an Almighty Power. God made light to shine out of darkness, Gen. 1.2, 3.

So (saith the Apostle) he hath made Christ (who is the Light of the World) to shine into our hearts; to give us the true Knowledge of God, and of his Glory (the Glory of his Grace.)

In the face of Jesus Christ, that is, by which we attain the clear and certain Knowledge of God (as a man is distinctly known by, or from his face) God is clearly and distinctly known only in, and by Christ.

Marginal references: Gr. is be [illegible: 1 word] hath; 2 Pet. 1.1