As lights in the world;— As light-houses; according to the original word, which alludes to the buildings so called. The passage in this view may be paraphrased, "Among whom be careful that you shine as elevated lights in the dark world about you; that you may direct those who fail on this dangerous sea, and secure them from suffering shipwreck on those fatal rocks, which every where lie in their way." See Matthew 5:14; Matthew 5:16. Several of our expositors prefer the marginal rendering of our bibles; among whom shine ye, &c. Instead of nation, some render the original generation.
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Philippians 2:15
15 That ye may be blameless and harmless,b the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;