ACC ~ 2 Corinthians 4 v6

THIS CREATION IS GREATER. CHRYSOSTOM: Do you see how Paul shows the glory of Moses flashing with added luster to those who want to see it? It shines in our hearts, he says, just as it shone on the face of Moses.First he reminds them of what was made at the beginning of creation, and then he shows that this renewed creation is greater. HOMILIES ON THE EPISTLES OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 8.3.

SHINING WITH DIVINE LIGHT. THEODORET OF CYR: Since the divine nature is invisible and always remains so, it is seen for what it is in the humanity of Jesus Christ which shines with divine light and sends out its rays. COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 309.

OUR HEARTS DARK. SAHDONA: Our hearts had been submerged in darkness. BOOK OF PERFECTION 64.

DAWNING OF DIVINE WISDOM. ISAAC OF NINEVEH: When the Apostle said, “God, Who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined into our hearts” the resurrection, he showed this resurrection to be the exodus from the old state which in the likeness of Sheol incarcerates a man where the light of the gospel will not shine mystically upon him. This is a breath of life through hope in the resurrection, and by it the dawning of divine wisdom shines in his heart, so that a man should become new, having nothing of the old man. ASCETICAL HOMILIES 37.

THE SHINING OF THE SPIRIT. AMBROSE: But does anyone deny that the Godhead of the eternal Trinity is to be adored, when the Scriptures also set forth the inexplicable majesty of the divine Trinity, as the apostle says elsewhere: “For the God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness has shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Christ Jesus?” … Who is it, then, who shined that we might know God in the face of Christ Jesus? For he said: “God shined,” that the glory of God might be known in the face of Jesus Christ. Who else do we think but the Spirit who was made manifest? Or who else is it but the Holy Spirit, to whom the power of the Godhead is referred? For those who exclude the Spirit must introduce another to receive with the Father and the Son the glory of the Godhead. THE HOLY SPIRIT 3.12.86, 88.

THE SPIRIT’S FIRE. SAHDONA: We should accordingly worship and glorify him who raised our dust to such state, recounting ceaselessly the holiness of him who mingled our spirit with his Spirit and mixed into our bodies the gift of his grace, causing the fire of his Holy Spirit to burst into flame in us. For “he has shone out in our hearts” which had been submerged in darkness. BOOK OF PERFECTION.