The Light of the World
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- For the film, see The Light of the World (film).
The Light of the World (1853–4) is an allegorical painting by William Holman Hunt representing the figure of Jesus preparing to knock on an overgrown and long-unopened door, symbolic of the human conscience[1]. The scriptural basis for this concept can be found in Revelation 3:20. The painting was Hunt's most famous and successful work and was toured around the world. The original is now in a side room off the large chapel at Keble College, Oxford. Hunt painted a large copy towards the end of his life, which is now in St Paul's Cathedral, London.
This painting inspired Salvation Army composer, the Late Commissioner Sir Dean Goffin to compose one of his most famous pieces also entitled "The Light of the World".
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