- Post tenebras lux
"Post tenebras lux" is a Latin phrase meaning "After Darkness, Light" though often translated as "Light After Darkness".It is Post tenebras spero lucem ("After darkness, I hope for light") in the
Vulgata version of Job 17:12 : 11 dies mei transierunt cogitationes meae dissipatae sunt torquentes cor meum 12 noctem verterunt in diem et rursum post tenebras spero lucem 13 si sustinuero infernus domus mea est in tenebris stravi lectulum meum] .The phrase was adopted as the Calvinist motto, and was subsequently adopted as the motto of the entireProtestant Reformation , [cite web
url = http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/onsite/browning/Lesson10.pdf
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accessdate = 3 Mar
accessyear = 2007] and also ofJohn Calvin 's adopted city ofGeneva ,Switzerland . As a mark of its role in the Calvinist movement, the motto is engraved on theReformation Wall , in Geneva, and theHuguenot Monument , inFranschhoek ,South Africa ."Post tenebras lux" was formerly the
state motto ofChile , before being replaced by the Spanish "Por la razón o la fuerza" ('By reason or by strength'). It is the motto of American International College in Springfield, Massachusetts and is one of the twomotto s ofRobert College , an American school inIstanbul ,Turkey .Footnotes
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