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Post tenebras lux is a Latin phrase and is translated as light after dark . In the Vulgate version of the Book of Job 17:12 VUL it says Post tenebras spero lucem (“After the dark I hope for the light”).
The idiom was used as the motto of the Calvinists and later as the motto of the entire Reformation , then also for Johannes Calvin's adopted home , the Swiss city of Geneva , and is today also the motto of the canton of Geneva , which emerged from the city-state of Geneva (see flag and coat of arms of the canton and the city of Geneva ). The importance of the saying for the Calvinist movement is underlined by the fact that it is engraved in the Reformation Wall in Geneva and in the Huguenot monument in Franschhoek , South Africa . It can also be found as the remains of a church in the “Post Tenebras Lux” window in Les Baux-de-Provence in France.
Post tenebras lux was the motto of Chile from 1812 to 1814 .
The saying was or is the motto of the following institutions:
- American International College ( Springfield , Massachusetts)
- Beyoglu Anadolu Lisesi (an English high school for girls in Istanbul )
- Externado de Colombia University (a private university in Bogotá , Colombia)
- Robert College (an American school in Istanbul)
- Geneva Bible Society
- University of Geneva
- Building inscription in the von Heeremann'schen Hof, Königstrasse 47 in Münster (1564)