Not that Corybn is alone on the issue — Jeremy Hunt, disastrously enough, used to be of the same persuasion before he had a sudden Damascene conversion upon becoming health secretary. (politics.co.uk)
It is new, in that this focal expression of God in Christ is the opening of a hitherto unknown possibility of life for men; as St. John Damascene said long ago, this is «a new thing, the newest of all new things, the only really new thing under the sun.» (religion-online.org)
It was an event of damascene revelation for me. (inc.com)