Everything about Post Tenebras Lux totally explained
Post Tenebras Lux is a
Latin phrase meaning
After Darkness, Light though often translated as
Light After Darkness.It is
Post tenebras spero lucem ("After darkness, I hope for light") in the
Vulgata version of
Job 17:12.
The phrase was adopted as the
Calvinist motto, and was subsequently adopted as the motto of the entire
Protestant Reformation, and also of
John Calvin's adopted city of
Geneva,
Switzerland. As a mark of its role in the Calvinist movement, the motto is engraved on the
Reformation Wall, in Geneva, and the
Huguenot Monument, in
Franschhoek,
South Africa.
Post Tenebras Lux was formerly the
state motto of
Chile, before being replaced by the
Spanish Por la razón o la fuerza ('By reason or by strength'). It is the motto of American International College in Springfield, Massachusetts and is one of the two
mottos of
Robert College, an
American school in
Istanbul,
Turkey.
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