There was a quick flash of light and then I knew all that he knows.

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Then there was a silence and then suddenly there's this dazzling light that flashes at you from the base of the launch pad - and that's ignition.

BBC: World News TV

Then, of a sudden, there was a light in the world, and a man from Galilee saying, Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's.

WSJ: In Hoc Anno Domini