COMPREHEND, verb transitive Literally, to take in;
- To contain; (From Webster 1828 dictionary of the English language.)
The darkness did not contain or overtake the light...why because light IS and darkness IS Not. Darkness is the absence of light --This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. -1 John 1:5
Believers are children of Light
-Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
-1 Thessalonians 5:5