. The image on the right demonstrates how contrast and comparison exceed what can be accomplished by placing light and darkness side by side. Just showing light or just showing darkness is less evocative. Placing them together exceeds what either light or darkness by themselves can effectively communicate. So it is with metaphor. The words, "Then I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness" (Ecclesiastes 2:13) demonstrates how the metaphor of light and darkness along side wisdom and folly provides the reader with an "excess." For many Christians this Holy Week is a time when the movement from light (Palm Sunday) to darkness (Maundy Thursday and Good Friday) to the brilliant light of Easter creates an excess of meaning. 
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Light and Darkness - Holy Week
. The image on the right demonstrates how contrast and comparison exceed what can be accomplished by placing light and darkness side by side. Just showing light or just showing darkness is less evocative. Placing them together exceeds what either light or darkness by themselves can effectively communicate. So it is with metaphor. The words, "Then I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness" (Ecclesiastes 2:13) demonstrates how the metaphor of light and darkness along side wisdom and folly provides the reader with an "excess." For many Christians this Holy Week is a time when the movement from light (Palm Sunday) to darkness (Maundy Thursday and Good Friday) to the brilliant light of Easter creates an excess of meaning. 
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