“ Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. ”
The light of the world - The light of the world often denotes the sun, John 11:9 . The sun renders objects visible, shows their form, their nature, their beauties, their deformities. The term li...
Ye are the (f) light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. (f) You shine and give light by being made partakers of the true light.
Mt. here brings together material ( a) found scattered in Lk., ( b) peculiar to himself. Matthew 5:13-16 . Salt and Light. Good men are not only rewarded in the coming age, they help the world...
light. Greek. phos . light. See App-130. world. Greek. kosmos. See App-129. A city. Safed, so placed, was within sight.
Matthew 5:14 Ye are the light of the world We are all the children of light, after having been enlightened by faith, and are commanded to carry in our hands “burning lamps,” (that we may not...
DISCOURSE: 1296 CHRISTIANS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD Matthew 5:14-16 . Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a...
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Ye are the light of the world - That is, the instruments which God chooses to make use of to illuminate the minds of men; a...
Ye are the light of the world— Jesus compares his disciples to the sun, representingtheefficacyoftheirministry(accompanied by his divine Spirit), to fill the world with the gladsome light of truth;...
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Ye are the light of the world, х to ( G3588 ) foos ( G5457 ) tou ( G3588 ) kosmou ( G2889 )]. Th...
The Sermon on the Mount John 5:1 to John 7:29 . The Sermon on the Mount: see Luke 6:20 . This sermon is so similar to the sermon reported by St. Luke ( Luke 6:20 ), that it is best to regard t...
The light of the world. — In its highest or truest sense the word belongs to Christ, and to Him only ( John 1:9 ; John 8:12 ). The comparison to the “candle” or “lamp” in Matthew 5:15 shows, ind...
Chapter 7 The Gospel of the Kingdom ("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1-48 ; Matthew 6:1-34 ; Matthew 7:1-29 IT may seem almost heresy to object to the time-honoured title "Sermon on the M...
the New Salt and Light of Human Society Matthew 5:10-16 We must expect to be persecuted, if we hold up the pure light of a consistent life amid the evils of the world. Men hate the light which...
In the three Chapter s beginning here we have the Magna Charta of the Kingdom. This chapter opens with a great revelation of its supreme condition. Character is everything. The first word is suggesti...
THE INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIAN LIFE ‘Ye are the light of the world.… Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.’ Matthew 5:14...
Ye are the light of the world ,.... What the luminaries, the sun and moon, are in the heavens, with respect to corporal light, that the apostles were in the world with regard to spiritual light; car...
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Ver. 14. Ye are the light of the world ] And must therefore lead convincing lives, though ye incur never so much hatred...
Ye are the light of the world The effect of light being to make things manifest, Ephesians 5:13 , and to direct us in the way in which we are to walk; the import of this metaphor is, that Christ h...
From every direction He attracted followers, Galilee mentioned first, but also Decapolis beyond the sea of Galilee, Jerusalem and Judea, and east of Jordan. No doubt their motives for following Him w...
The Sermon on the Mount. 13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is...
You that are to be my apostles are so eminently, but all you that are my disciples are so also. Christ is the Light of the world 1 Thessalonians 1:4,9 ; but though the sun be the light of the worl...
The Persecution of the Godly, And the Blessedness That Is Seen To Be Theirs As A Result. They Will Therefore Be Like The Prophets Of Old Who Were Also Persecuted, And Will Be The Salt Of The Earth A...
CRITICAL NOTES GENERAL REMARKS ON THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT The aim and contents of the “ Sermon .”—No mere sermon is this, only distinguished from others of its class by its reach and sweep and...
world "kosmos", means "mankind." ( See Scofield) - ( Matthew 4:8 ).
Matthew 5:13-16 Influence of Christian Character. I. Christians such Christians as those to whom the Beatitudes of the previous verses belong are called to be, and will be, the "salt of the earth...
Matthew 5:1-2 . And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,- Our Saviour soon gather...
Matthew 5:1 . Seeing the multitudes, assembled from six provinces to see and to hear the great, the promised prophet, who had opened his ministry with glorious miracles. But our Saviour looked upo...
Ye are the light of the world. Christians the light of the world The Church can diffuse light. 1. By reflection. 2. By dispersing it. ( L H. Evans, M. A. ) The Church of Christ the ligh...
EXPOSITION Matthew 5:1 And seeing the multitudes ; i.e. those spoken of in Matthew 4:25 —the multitudes who were at that point of time following him. He went up . From the lower groun...
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.
1 Thessalonians 5:5 ; 2 Corinthians 6:14 ; Ephesians 5:8-14 ; Genesis 11:4-8 ; John 12:36 ; John 5:35 ; Philippians 2:15 ; Proverbs 4:18 ; Revelation 1:20 ; Revelation 2:1 ; Revelation 21:...
The Sermon on the Mount Matthew 5:1-42 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The key to the Sermon on the Mount is found in Matthew 4:23 : "preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom." Before the Lord sat a great...
Ye are the light of the world — If ye are thus holy, you can no more be hid than the sun in the firmament: no more than a city on a mountain — Probably pointing to that on the brow of the opposite...