John 1:5

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I

For, in discoursing of the Saviour and declaring that all things beyond the Pleroma received form from Him, he says that He is the fruit of the entire Pleroma. For he styles Him a "light which shineth in darkness, and which was not comprehended"[122]

Address of Tatian to the Greeks

In itself it is darkness, and there is nothing luminous in it. And this is the meaning of the saying, "The darkness comprehendeth not the light."[41]

Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II

But he who has the light watches, "and darkness seizes not on him,"[181]

Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II

For how, says Heraclitus, can one escape the notice of that which never sets? Let us by no means, then, veil our selves with the darkness; for the light dwells in us. "For the darkness," it is said, "comprehendeth it not."[208]

Tertullian On Repentance

Draw whatever (veil of) darkness you please over your deeds, "God is light."[53]

Tertullian On Modesty

Nay, but this whole world is the one house of all; in which world it is more the heathen, who is found in darkness, whom the grace of God enlightens, than the Christian, who is already in God's light.[87]

Origen de Principiis Book I

Now, I should like to ask these persons what they have to say respecting that passage where it is declared that God is light; as John writes in his Epistle, "God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all."[3]

Origen de Principiis Book IV

Nor, seeing He is called the Son of (His) love, will it appear absurd if in this way He be called the Son of (His) will. Nay, John also indicates that "God is Light,"[19]

Origen Against Celsus Book II

hearing it declared in one passage, that "God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all; "[192]

Origen Against Celsus Book V

But even this rational light itself ought not to be worshipped by him who beholds and understands the true light, by sharing in which these also are enlightened; nor by him who beholds God, the Father of the true light,-of whom it has been said, "God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all."[37]

Origen Against Celsus Book VII

and of the Word, who says, "The light shineth in darkness,"[134]

Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes

and tells us again that men's desire was for the darkness,[104]

Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes

Furthermore, how can that being, seeing that he is pure and total darkness, surprise the light and apprehend it, while the evangelist gives us the testimony that "the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not? "[200]

Methodius Oration on the Psalms

They ungratefully and malignantly ask, Who is this? as if they had never yet seen their Benefactor, and Him whom divine miracles, beyond the power of man, had made famous and renowned; for the darkness comprehended not[24]

Origen Commentary on John Book II "They knew not, they understood not, they walk in darkness." Consider, however, this passage,[75]