No

God's first spoken word and his own self-description — light before the sun, and a Light no darkness can put out.

Law written on hearts, sins remembered no more — promised to Israel by Jeremiah, ratified in a cup on the night of betrayal.

Not merely the absence of light in Scripture but a realm and a power — one God parts, invades, and finally abolishes.

Matthew arranges the genealogy of Jesus into three sets of fourteen and says so out loud — a structure, not an accident.

God reveals himself by naming himself — each name a disclosure, not a label, and each one attached to a story.