Matthew 5:14...."You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden.
See Isa 51:4...."Listen to me, my people;
hear me, my nation:
The law will go out from me;
my justice will become a light to the nations.
John 3:19....This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
John 8:12....When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."
John 9:5...While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
2 Cor 6:14.....Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?
Also John 12:36 , Php 2:15, Proverbs 4:18
Joh 5:35 Ro 2:19,20 2Co 6:14 Eph 5:8-141Th 5:5 Re 1:20 2:1
Ge 11:4-8 Re 21:14
Note
A city that is set on an hill. Anciently cities, for the sake of defense, were placed on hills. Such cities are seen from afar.
Comment
Let it be observed, too, that while the two figures of salt and sunlight both express the same function of Christians-their blessed influence on their fellow men-they each set this forth under a different aspect. Salt operates internally, in the mass with which it comes in contact; the sunlight operates externally, irradiating all that it reaches. Hence Christians are warily styled "the salt of the earth"-with reference to the masses of mankind with whom they are expected to mix; but "the light of the world"-with reference to the vast and variegated surface which feels its fructifying and gladdening radiance. The same distinction is observable in the second pair of those seven parables which our Lord spoke from the Galilean Lake-that of the "mustard seed," which grew to be a great overshadowing tree, answering to the sunlight which invests the world, and that of the "leaven," which a woman took and, like the salt, hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened (Mt 13:31-33).
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