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Used in various significations in scripture.
1. State of the earth before God said, Let there be light. Gen. 1: 2.
2. Temporary absence of light in the night. Gen. 1: 5.
3. Extraordinary darkness sent by God. Ex. 10: 21; Ex. 14: 20; Matt. 27: 45.
4. The darkness by which God shrouded His glory. Ex. 20: 21; Ps.
18: 9, 11; Ps. 97: 2; Heb. 12: 18.
5. State of death as compared with natural life. Job 10: 21, 22.
6. Moral darkness as the consequent state of man fallen. Ps. 82: 5; Isa. 9: 2; Matt. 4: 16; John 1: 5; John 3: 19; 2 Cor. 6: 14; 1 Peter 2: 9.
7. It characterises Satan and his agents. Luke 22: 53; Eph. 6: 12; Rev. 16: 10.
8. It is the abode of wicked spirits and will characterise the place of punishment of the wicked. Matt. 8: 12; 2 Peter 2: 4; Jude 6, 13. God is light, and Christ came into the world as the true light: everything shut out from God, or opposed to God and to the Lord Jesus, must partake of moral darkness.