The Sun of Righteousness
No. 316
That the sun is designed by God as a type of Christ may be argued from Scripture, not only by Christ’s being frequently represented by it, being called the Sun, the Sun of Righteousness, the Light of the World, etc.; but also by the sun’s withdrawing its light when Christ was crucified, as it were conforming to its antitype; as the veil of the temple did at the same time, that rent when Christ's flesh (which by the Apostle’s testimony is its antitype [Hebrews 10:20]) was rent, or his animal nature destroyed. And at the same time, the light of the sun was extinguished when the life of Christ, its antitype, was extinguished. Christ rising with the sun at his resurrection, is another argument of the same thing. - “Images,” no. 185