Matthew Poole and continuators on John 9:5

5 As long as I am in the world , I am the light of the world .

Those words as long as I am in the world, let us know what our Saviour meant by the day, mentioned ver. 4. viz. The time he should be in the World: (Saith he,) So long as I am in the world it is a part of my work to shew light to the world. Christ indeed, though he hath left the World, is yet the Light of the World; but he was the Light of the World, that part of the World, especially where he was in a more eminent sense so long as the World enjoyed his bodily presence in it.

Marginal references: Chap. 1.5, 9. & 8.12. & 12.35, 46.