Lux in Tenebris
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Lux in Tenebris, in Latin, means "Light in Darkness". "Lux in Tenebris" was also the national motto for the country that was once 'Nyasaland' (that country is now known as 'Malawi')
The phrase belongs to the Latin translation of the Gospel of John: "et lux in tenebris lucet et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt", meaning "The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it". (Fifth verse of Chapter I)[1]
It is also the title of a short one-act farce, written in prose, by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht. It is thought that he wrote it in 1919, under the influence of "that great Munich clown Karl Valentin".[2]