“See your good works.”, III. And the disciples would do similar works of power. His calling is from the elevated position he occupies, to shed light upon the whole world. III. 2. ‘Kalos’ means good in the sense of being attractive. I. Still it is quite true that there are circumstances under which a Christian is bound openly to express his opinion on religious subjects and matters; and this is the real difficulty—how to do so without display. For that it is enough to be a light. The influence of salt is internal, of light, external; hence ‘earth’ (Matthew 5:13), and here ‘world,’ both referring to society or mankind, the latter more to its organized external form. I. ‘A city set on a hill “cannot be hid.” It cannot. A. In this metaphor, He likens His disciples to light. It is not enough to be Christians only to ourselves, we must be so before God and men. The certainty that if we are light we shall shine. We should avoid all self-display. Although we must abound in good works that men may see them, yet not to be seen of men. For that is now their very purpose for being in the world. But be ye blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation (as the Baptist was), among whom ye shine as lights in the world; as those great lights ( φωστηρις, luminaria, Philippians 2:15), the sun and moon (so the word signifieth), so that they that speak evil of you may be judged as absurd as those Atlantes that curse the rising sun because it scorcheth them. There may have been a hint here in Jesus’ words of how this tiny group of disciples will grow in numbers until they become like a populous city. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden; To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid, A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid, "Glorious things are spoken of thee, thou city of God. Pseudo-Chrys. Cussing. The sun renders objects visible, shows their form, their nature, their beauties, their deformities. 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. Matthew 5:14-16 This Little Light of Mine. 4. So good ministers (as fixed stars in the Church’s firmament) by the influence of their lips, feed; by the regular motion of their lives, confirm; and by the light of both, enlighten many. Citation is only available when scripts are enabled. How strange and exaggerated such language must have sounded to that rude and rough company which first heard it. Oh, sir,” said he, “look at that dark and stormy sea. Christ is the Light of the world John 1:4,9; but though the sun be the light of the world, yet it doth not follow that the moon and the stars also are not so: he is the original Light, the great Light who hath light from and in himself. Let this conformity with God's appointment be established in nature, and as long as nature lasts God will be glorified. So there are Christians among us who, while letting their light shine, contrive to paint themselves upon the glass of the lamp in which it is enclosed. (S. Partridge, M. This is bringing home the inevitability of their position. Ambrose. [⇑ See verse text ⇑] In the previous verse, Jesus compared His disciples to salt (Matthew 5:13). Read Matthew 5:14-16. That the spirit should, by His aid, struggle upwards through darkness into the recovery of light, was His own purpose respecting us. It is because they acknowledge their responsibility to bring glory to Him that they can later be seen as relying on His provision for them. I. Thrice happy he that (with Samuel, Daniel, Paul, and others) can be acquitted and approved by himself in private, in public by others, in both by God; that can by his spotless conversation slaughter envy, stop an open mouth, and draw testimony, if not from the mouths, yet from the consciences of the adversaries, of his integrity and uprightness. In analyzing that power there are three or four elements. Tabor looks low, and Huttin seems to be in a valley. II. There is not only light sown for him that he may reap and enjoy, he is himself a child or son of light—a Hebraistic mode of strongly expressing the luminosity that completely suffuses, as it were, the Christian man. (38-42) The law of love explained. I. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid — nor can it be supposed to have been so built except to be seen by many eyes. I. Hilary: It is the nature of a light to emit its rays whithersoever it is carried about, and when brought into a house to dispel the darkness of that house. They will ascribe to God the power by which we have been made what we are. He must keep within the limits of his proper place. 3. Always, in all societies, in all business, at home and abroad, in prosperity and adversity, let it be seen that you are real Christians. This Christian consistency requires nonconformity to the world, and the good works of an active Christian life. So in us there should be nothing of evil to draw away men’s eyes from the light and fix them upon our imperfections. Christ, therefore, informs the apostles, that they must be more careful to live a devout and holy life, than unknown persons of the common rank, because the eyes of all are directed to them, as to lighted candles; and that they must not be endured, if their devotion, and uprightness of conduct, do not correspond to the doctrine of which they are ministers. IV. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Now, similarly, Christ is the hidden source and centre of the world’s enlightenment; but Christians, united to Him by the spiritual tubing of faith, draw off from Him that influence by which they are enabled, each in his own place and in his own measure, to dispel some portion of the darkness by which they are surrounded. The Lord Jesus Christ bestows it on his disciples, because they were appointed to preach the Gospel (Philippians 2:15. And having built a stately palace there, where formerly had stood the palace of Julian the Apostate (the Romans being much against it), he gave up the work. But the principle guide in cases like these is not to be found so much in an external rule as in a spiritually enlightened discrimination, which feels instinctively when is the time for secrecy and when for publicity. Sanhedrim, fol. (Dr. D. The witness is maintained in two ways—. Believers are “the light of the world.”. It is at once the crown of the district and the central point round which the life of the neighbourhood turns. rights reserved. The putting the lamp under the corn-measure means the preferring bodily ease and enjoyment to the duty of preaching the Gospel, and hiding the light of good teaching under temporal gratification. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Both similitudes of salt and light represent our calling and mission. Recent travellers, as Drs. The apostles, Christian ministers, and all Christians, are lights of the world, because they, by their instructions and example, show what God requires, what is the condition of man, what is the way of duty, peace, and happiness the way that leads to heaven. “He hath dispersed abroad,” etc. II. In the Parable of the Light recorded in Matthew 5:14-16 (found also in Mark 4:21; Luke 8:16-17; 11:33-36), Jesus Christ uses two figures of speech to express the responsibility of true Christians to influence the world: "a city . 1. The word light implies a saving knowledge of the truth. (S. 5:14 You are the light of the world. (A. Maclaren, D. D.), The duty of letting our light shine before men. Â. Jesus had in mind a specific city on a hill, Jerusalem. He showed us the way to become Christians by becoming a light of the world. Now that these and the like attempts took not effect, Genebrard saith it was a special providence of God, to the end that the kingdom of the Church foretold by Daniel might have Rome for its seat. As a member of the Church of Christ he must show good will. The present Hebrew name is Zephath, and may either refer to its elevation like a watchtower, or to the beauty and grandeur of the surrounding prospects. What are the limits of lawful showing of our deeds, so that we may not break the law which bids us be secret? Just as the glorious orb of day, prying into the recesses of rocks and valleys, receives from the glassy lake and the limpid stream, and from every bright object, beautiful reflections of himself, though nothing could be seen at all without his own light; so God, contemplating the race of man, though he finds among us nothing but what He Himself enables us to exhibit, discovers in every heart that is faithful, in every heart that is pure, in every heart that is holy, merciful, and kind, beautiful representations of His own sublime perfections, and these He is pleased to call glorifications of Himself, though they are made so only by His own gracious acceptation. : How Christ manifests His saints, suffering them not to be hid, He shews by another comparison, adding, "Neither do men light a lamp to put it under a corn-measure," but on a stand. Christ is light, and his disciples must be light. I. When they do, then good things will happen and He subjoins two comparisons. There are two ways by which you equalize the temperature of a hotter and a colder body, the one is by the hot one getting cold, and the other is by the cold one getting hot. These words as trey proclaim the redeemer. Irreligion is artificial. We are naturally inclined to imitation. Matthew 5:14 is the fourteenth verse of the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. Note how this first assumes that the world is in darkness. God alone can light you; teachers may polish. Before the incarnation Christ was the light of men; also the historic Christ is the source of all revelation. And in another placeF13Targum in Cant. That religion, if it exists, cannot be concealed. [margin note: Philippians 2:15]. 1. The city upon a hill is the landmark for all the country round. Consider how great a profession, and yet a profession how unconscious and modest, arises from the mere ordinary manner in which any strict Christian lives. Wherever there is spirit there must be responsibility, and there cannot be responsibility without free will. The object of light is to disclose what would be otherwise unseen. But in the higher world of spirits there is another necessary condition which nature has not. Christianity is essentially diffusive. ), A good life the great means of glorifying God. A lamp must be fed with oil, or it will not keep alight. There lies Gennesaret, like a mirror set in framework of dark mountains and many-faced hills. ‘The world’ may not here have the same wide significance as in Matthew 28:19. We know too well how helpless and hopeless we must look to those who judge Jesus Christ by us. There must be nothing to mar the brilliancy of the light. But, alas! That there is light in us at all makes it all the more important that we should keep ourselves pure. Of Safed Dr. Thomson (vol. And it shines to all who are in the house. נהורא דעלמא, "the light of the world"; but this title much better agrees and suits with the persons Christ gives it to, who, no question, had a view to those exalted characters the Jews gave to their celebrated Rabbins. ii. Christian men individually, and the Christian Church as a whole, shine by derived light. Their character. ), A young minister, when about to be ordained, stated that at one period of his life he was nearly an infidel. These ancient parts of the castle render it all but certain that there was then a city or citadel on this most conspicuous “hill” top, and our Lord might well point to it to illustrate and confirm his precept. We bear His badges. Safed is truly a high tower, on which to set the watchmen of Zion. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid — So the Church of God should be as a central and elevated city, visible to all the world. Every man influences all about him, and receives influences from them, and if there be not more exports than imports, he is a poor creature at the mercy of circumstances. “Even so let your light shine before men.” The illustration is now made specific. That is constantly the theme of Scripture (Psalms 82:5; Psalms 107:14; Proverbs 4:19; Isaiah 9:2; Isaiah 42:16; Isaiah 49:9; Luke 1:79; John 1:5; John 3:19; John 8:12; John 12:46; Acts 26:18; Ephesians 4:18; Ephesians 5:8). A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. The following verses in Matthew 5 highlight this truth: “You are the light of the world. It is visible afar off; it overtops the lower country, so that the people cannot, if they wish, shut their eyes and refuse to see it. We know our weakness. Bishop Woodford, Sermons on Subjects from the New Testament, p. 1. Christians are the bearers of this light into all the ends of the world. Ephesians 5:13) φῶς ἐστιν. Men more ready to shine socially than morally, Persons who are not averse to make all the show they can in social life are wonderfully sensitive about any disclosure of spiritual conviction or feeling. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in … “And glorify your Father who is in Heaven.” And their sole aim in all this is to be in order that men may glorify the Father of the disciples Who is in Heaven. (1) The Psalmist says, "Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart." No pains need to be taken to secure that the light shall shine. See Doddridge, and Beausobre and Lenfant. Belief has nothing to do with that which is obvious to sight. “Take heed that ye do not your alms before men to be seen of them.” Secrecy in good deeds is not absolute, but relative; not positive, and for its own sake, but in order to exhibit the vitiating effect of ostentation. This witness is maintained in two ways: (1) by creeds; (2) by the maintenance of forms of outward worship. ), And yet He is pleased to say that our sins dishonour Him, and that our obedience glorifies Him. These rules will aid spiritual modesty. The next thing to do with a lamp is to set it where it may be seen and give light. Mr. Maundrelltells us, that there is a city called Saphet, thought to be the ancient Bethulia, which, standing on a high hill, might easily be seen from the mountain on which Christ made this discourse; and he, very probably, supposes, that our Saviour might point to that here, as he afterwards did to the birds and the lilies; agreeably to what we have observed on Matthew 5:2 of our Lord's manner of taking his similies from the most obvious things; a thought which Sir Isaac Newton has well illustrated in his Observations on the Prophesies of Daniel, p. 148., to whom the writer referred to in the note on Matthew 5:2 is greatly indebted. Matthew 5:14-19 King James Version (KJV) 14 Ye are the light of the world. Whilst standing looking on, the keeper of the house boasted of its brilliancy and beauty, observing there were few such lights in the world beside. If he had said, the kingdom of antichrist foretold by St Paul, and likewise by John the divine, he had divined aright. There must be light in nature, or the plant will dwindle, the animal will pine, the world will become joyless and waste; there must be light, too, in the world of spirits, or discord and confusion will reign where harmony and order ought to be. This implies that the true light has been kindled in us. (2) The Apostle, in addressing Christians, says, "Ye are the children of the light." The eyes of the world were upon them. Both similitudes of salt and light represent our calling and mission. ., the light, the sun of the moral world conceived of as full of the darkness of ignorance and sin. IV. Their good living and positive actions for the good of others must be visible to all, not because they thrust them in front of their noses like the Pharisees and Gentiles do (Matthew 6:2; Matthew 6:5; Matthew 6:7; Matthew 6:16), but because their good works so abound that they cannot help but be seen. This rule may serve for some external direction in this perplexed case. Matthew 5:14-16, light of the world 5:14 You are the light of the world. It is part of the Sermon on the Mount, and is one of a series of metaphors immediately following the Beatitudes. 1. What does Matthew 5:16 mean? Yet it all came true. 1. The righteous lives they exhibit and the truth they spread among their fellowmen will reflect the light that comes from the Lord. We count as His. Cut the current and the electric light dies, slacken the engine and the electric are becomes dim, quicken it and it burns bright. (a) By creeds. By that discovery, to which we have been so long accustomed that we have ceased to reckon it wonderful. There is little difficulty in fixing the dominant idea contained in the metaphor. How does the matter stand between our profession and our conduct? (W. W. i, p. 420) says: Maundrell, Jowett, and others, throw out the hint that this was the city set on a hill, which could not be hid; and if that greatest of sermons was preached on the horns of Huttin, or near them, as tradition affirms, and if any. Bede, in Loc. The city is lit by lamps, and yet it is the gas that lightens it. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid." ", "Neither do men light a lamp to put it under a corn-measure,", "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works. Matthew 5:14-16, light of the world 5:14 You are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Tabor looks low, and Huttin seems to be in a valley. i. pp. Dr. Philip W. McLarty. Before the eyes of men we must pass as types of what Christianity means. Aug.: Or, the mountain is the great righteousness, which is signified by the mountain from which the Lord is now teaching. But perhaps the discourses related by both of them are detached from the immediate context. 16 "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven. I. As a city situate on the top of a hill cannot be hid, neither can a light fail to be seen unless it be expressly prevented from shining. Let your light shine. What evidence of darkness do you see in the world? Disciples of Christ are the light of the world in much the same sense that they are the salt of the earth. 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; carrying and spreading the light of the Gospel not only in Judea, but all over the world, which was in great darkness of ignorance and error; and through a divine blessing attending their ministry, many were turned from the darkness of Judaism and Gentilism, of sin and infidelity, to the marvellous light of divine grace. “But,” said he, “there was one argument in favour of Christianity, which I could never refute-the consistent conduct of my own father.” (Anecdotes.). "You are the light of the world. As a father he will have proper regard for the spiritual good of his children. And the man’s life, saith Erasmus concerning Luther, whom he greatly loved not, is approved of all men; neither is this any small prejudice to his enemies, that they can tax him for nothing. Daniel With regard to almsgiving, the Psalmist, speaks of it as properly exciting the esteem of men. Intro and Recap: a. Aug.: With what meaning do we suppose the words, "to put it under a corn-measure," were said? A light sheds illumination and gives direction. A.). Just like a sturdy lighthouse on a raging shoreline, we are called to be a shining light to this turbulent world in which we live. The world’s moral darkness implied. Matthew 5:14. Kiddushin, fol. The inference which our Saviour draws from the foregoing doctrine, ye are the light of the world, therefore let your light shine before men. Men are to see the works, not the worker. 2. , was higher than all other lands; and the temple at Jerusalem was higher than any other part of the land of Israel. A city that, is set on an hill cannot be hid; alluding either to Nazareth, where he was educated, and had lately preached, which was built on an hill, from the brow of which the inhabitants sought to have cast him headlong, Luke 4:29 or to Capernaum, which, on account of its height, is said to be. They will be ‘persecuted’. On the contrary, many advantages may arise to the cause of religion from the exhibition of piety. It matters not though we be unseen, if but the light be clear; for then we are fulfilling the command. Matthew 5:14-16 NIV “You are the light of the world. (F. Goode, M. ", "and they shall glorify your Father which is in heaven.". Her extinct tribes she may not recall; her faded flowers she cannot recover. : Or, Christ Himself has lighted this lamp, when He filled the earthen vessel of human nature with the fire of His Divinity, which He would not either hide from them that believe, nor put under a bushel that is shut up under the measure of the Law, or confine within the limits of any one oration. v. pt. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden; nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. fol. Yet the Christian is not like the sun, self-luminous, but borrows his rays, like the moon, from a primal source. Jewish homes, innumerable little truth-revealers, casting their light across the land.Â, Because of ancient Israel’s belief in its light giving role, the menorah style lamp stand, with its The scandal is, not to see religion opposed by unbelievers, but that Christians dare not maintain their religion with zeal and proclaim it as their greatest honour and glory. Hilary: Or, the lamp, i.e. Their actions could not be hid. If ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you — We are not to infer from this, that the forgiving of injuries alone will entitle us to pardon. All the glass in the optical instruments, whether they are intended for scientific purposes, or for ordinary use, should be free from dross. Jesus reminds his disciples that they are to to be like lamps and reveal the truth before men. ccclxxx.7 (vol. There are two sides of religion—neither in the least degree opposed to the other, though entirely distinct. 3, 8, 12; Revelation 21:10). 2 Peter 1:19. Be modest in other things. 1. , say they, "how beautiful are the great ones of the congregation, and the wise men, who sit in the sanhedrim! 15 "Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. ), I. Religion proclaims the name of God and the action of God whether men will bear or forbear. Being twelve they had only so … Christians are to spread truth to destroy ignorance. The light of the world - The light of the world often denotes the sun, John 11:9. The imagery might, however, come from the prophetic visions of the Zion of the future, idealising the position of the actual Zion (Isaiah 2:2; Micah 4:1). Or rather he is like the. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Therefore He goes on to caution disciples against the policy of obscuration. It is upon this state of facts that Christ ordained that men should carry their moral faculties up to the highest degree of excellence. In the East, cities are often built on hills. (Dr. A. is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.  Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, In one point of view it is a secret principle, working noiselessly in the soul of a man, subduing gradually his evil propensities, weakening and destroying his corrupt appetites. Terms of Service. . And as we live as strangers in an alien world, where Satan has become the god of this world for a season, we are blessed indeed for it is God who works in us, both to will and to do to His good pleasure. See John 5:35. Matthew 6:14. And now, the basis of discipleship having been sorted out, we can move on to the detail. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid] As that city that is mounted on seven hills, Revelation 17:9; ( Roma Radix Omnium Malorum), Rome the root of all evils and cannot be hid, but is apparently discerned and descried to be that great city Babylon: so Augustine and other writers call it: so Bellarmine and Ribera the Jesuit yield it. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.". 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 (Matthew 13:31-33). The lampstand is the Church, on which He set the lamp, when He affixed to our foreheads the faith of His incarnation. But Christ knew that there would be strong temptation for the men that had it in them to be lights to hide their light. This appellation was given by the Jews to their wise men and doctors. 420,421) says, “The shape of the hill is a well-described oval, and the wall corresponds to it. We are in the light and cannot help ourselves.’. Surely not. 1. We read of a time when this earth, so full of fair shapes and wonderful provisions, was without form and void. The bottom of the outer ditch is now a very flourishing vineyard, and the entire circuit is not far from half a mile. ver 1. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid." II. Jesus knew all the attainments of the earth, and He could appreciate their excellency and beauty too;… but nothing of all this could east light on the deepest problems that agitate the human heart-what must I do to be saved? Slocombe. . "Ye are the light of the world. We do not deceive ourselves. II. But the people of God in general are to be zealous of more ordinary ‘good works’ because they are God’s own possession (Titus 2:14), and good works are regularly urged on God’s people throughout the New Testament. Hence, Christians are warily called "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." - Let your holy life, your pure conversation, and your faithful instructions, be everywhere seen and known. Its beginning must be ascribed to a Power not of this earth before it can present itself as an object of faith. II. So must the church give forth its light. Christian consistency. Ancient cities were built on hills for defence, and were clearly visible. Fraser. (W. M. Now therefore as the tree of life was sweet to the taste and fair to the eye; and as in Absalom there was no blemish from head to foot; so should it be with God’s ministers. The genuine Christian’s character-”light.”, III. But the CHURCH OF GOD, the city on a hill (Isaiah 2:2; Galatians 4:26; see also Hebrews 12:22), in allusion to their present situation, on a mountain, is most probably the leading thought. 5. . King David, a man whose dynasty God had entrusted with revealing divine judgements to the world. 14.Ye — Apostles, and indeed all Christians — are the light of the world —For how dark the world would be without a Christ, a Gospel, a Holy Spirit, and a Church! ), 3. “That they may see your good (kalos) works.” Compare here Matthew 11:4-5; Acts 2:22. And man's spirit did extinguish that light, and the spiritual world became anarchy and confusion. 1. mentioned below, deriving light, yet putting forth vigour to produce light. A.). is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.  Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, I. Now, the whole passage of man's life, from the cradle to the grave, is full of light. Candles are not lit to be looked at, but that something else may be seen by them. Men may see God through our works. III. Thence the eye sweeps over Gilead and Bashan, Samaria and Carmel, the plains of Galilee, the coasts of Phoenicia, the hills of Naphtali, the long line of Lebanon, and the lofty head of Hermon, a vast panorama, embracing a thousand points of historic and sacred interest. Tantam esse morum integritatem, ut nec hostes reperiant quod calumnientur. See Matthew 4:16; Luke 2:32; John 1:4; John 8:12; Isaiah 49:6. Ye are the light of the world, [ to (Greek #3588) foos (Greek #5457) tou (Greek #3588) kosmou (Greek #2889)]. If nature decays, she possesses no power of self-renewal. The Christian must show that he is earnest about religion. "Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great [is] your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you." The moon provides light for the earth just as the sun does. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. II. 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