To give knowledge of salvation to his people by the remission of their sins,
Thus again we have a close correspondence with the Gospel of John which also identified Jesus as "the true Light lighting every man, coming into this world" (John 1:9).  In view of the actual meaning, "Dayspring from on High" (as in the KJV) is the best rendition.  Christ is indeed the Light of the world; and it was appropriate that he should thus have been identified by the very first prophet to speak after the promise of Malachi  (Malachi 4:2) that "the Sun of righteousness" should arise "with healing in his wings." There is a strong resemblance here to  2 Peter 1:19, in which Christ is compared to a lamp shining in a squalid room.