The people that sat in darkness, hath seen great light: and to them that sat in the region of the shadow of death, light is sprung up.
Francis Patrick Kenrick
Galilee of the Gentiles took its name probably from the concourse of pagans of different nations who settled there. It was near the Tyrian territory. There was another Galilee in Judea, about Tiberias, aftd the land of Genesareth. The deliverance of the people from servitude and oppression, when Sennacherib was defeated, was a faint image of the blessings to be con- ferred by our Divine Deliverer. Christ is the true light. Literally, " in the region and shadow," that is, where darkness en- tirely prevails. Ignorance and sin cover the mind with utter darkness.
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.