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Verse Matthew 5:14. _YE ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD_] That is, the
instruments which God chooses to make use of to illuminate the minds
of men; as he uses the sun (to which probably he pointed) to enl...
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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 light is...
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5. THE PROCLAMATION OF THE KING CONCERNING HIS KINGDOM. CHAPTER S 5-7
_ 1. The Characteristics of the heirs of the Kingdom.(Matthew 5:1 .)
2. The Confirmation of the Law and its Expansion.(Matthew 5:...
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Mt. here brings together material (_a)_ found scattered in Lk., (_b)_
peculiar to himself.
MATTHEW 5:13. SALT AND LIGHT. Good men are not only rewarded in the
coming age, they help the world now and...
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YE ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.
The business of the church is not only to save, but to enlighten.
Christ is light and his disciples must be light. They spread the light
of truth and hope, and chase aw...
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You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid.
Nor do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on a stand, and
it gives light to all in the house.
It may well be said that...
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THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT (Matthew 5:1-48)
As we have already seen, Matthew has a careful pattern in his gospel.
In his story of the baptism of Jesus he shows us Jesus realizing that
the hour has struc...
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LIGHT. Greek. _phos_. light. See App-130.
WORLD. Greek. _kosmos._ See App-129.
A CITY. _Safed,_ so placed, was within sight....
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_the light of the world_ See John 8:12, where Jesus says of Himself "I
am the light of the world." Cp. Philippians 2:15, "Ye shine as lights
(rather -luminaries") in the world."
_a city that is set on...
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VER 14. "YE ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. A CITY THAT IS SET ON A HILL
CANNOT BE HID."
Gloss: As the doctors by their good conversation are the salt with
which the people is salted; so by their word of...
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_JESUS' TEACHING ABOUT INFLUENCE AND LAW MATTHEW 5:13-20:_ Those that
exhibit the characteristics of the beatitudes become the salt of the
earth and the light of the world. Those with humble and pure...
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ΎΜΕΊΣ "вы!" (pi.), эмфаза и
противопоставление.
ΦΩΣ (G5457) свет. Свет был метафорой
чистоты, знания истины, откровения в
присутствии Бога (Carson, 139). О случаях
употребления этой метафоры _см._ Lu...
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DISCOURSE: 1296
CHRISTIANS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD
Matthew 5:14. _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
bushel, b...
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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; a...
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B. THE MISSION OF THE WISE AND GODLY MAN
TEXT: 5:13-16
13. Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost its savor,
wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but
to b...
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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, [ to (G3588) foos (G5457) tou (G3588)
kosmou ...
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18-19 Compare Mar_1:16-18; Luk_5:1-11; Joh_1:40-42.
21-22 Compare Mar_1:19-20; Luk_5:10-11.
23 See Mar_1:21-39.
25 Compare Mar_3:7-8.
1-2 Compare Luk_6:20:23.
1 The “Sermon on the Mount” was proba...
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THE RELATION OF CHRIST'S DISCIPLES TO THE WORLD. Nothing corresponding
to this section is found in St. Luke's sermon, but parallels occur in
Luke 14:34 and Luke 11:33. The section is well placed by St...
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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
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MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS
MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 5
JESUS TEACHES 5:1–7:29
INTRODUCTION
This is the first of the five main sections that report what Jesus
taught in Matthew’s *gospe...
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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,
indeed, that...
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CHAPTER 7
The Gospel of the Kingdom
("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1; Matthew 6:1; Matthew 7:1
IT may seem almost heresy to object to the time-honoured title "Sermon
on the Mount"; yet, so smal...
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μωρανθῇ. The Vulgate renders the verb _evanuerit_. Better Beza
and Erasmus, _infatuatus fuerit_. If the salt become insipid, so as to
lack its proper preserving virtue can this happen? Weiss and other...
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ἄλας, a late form for ἄλς, ἄλος, masculine. The
properties of salt are assumed to be known. Commentators have
enumerated four. Salt is pure, preserves against corruption. gives
flavour to food, and as...
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_Disciple functions_. It is quite credible that these sentences formed
part of the Teaching on the Hill. Jesus might say these things at a
comparatively early period to the men to whom He had already...
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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
expose...
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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 suggestiv...
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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....
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CHAPTER 16
SERMON ON THE MOUNT
Matthew 5-7, and Luke 6:20-49. A few days ago it was my privilege to
spend two beautiful bright days at the sea of Galilee, sailing over
it, and visiting the places of...
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God has been pleased, in the separate accounts He has given us of our
Lord Jesus, to display not only His own grace and wisdom, but the
infinite excellency of His Son. It is our wisdom to seek to prof...
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_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; M...
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_THE CITY ON THE HILL_
‘A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.’
Matthew 5:14
How strange and exaggerated such language must have sounded to that
rude and rough company which first heard it. S...
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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 wander i...
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He then gathers around Him those who were definitively to follow Him
in His ministry and His temptations; and, at His call, to link their
portion and their lot with His, forsaking all beside.
The str...
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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; carryi...
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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 of...
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_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 had...
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LIGHT; that which shows things as they are, and gives to men right
views of them....
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YE ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. A CITY THAT IS SET ON A HILL CANNOT BE
HID....
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The same admonition under a different figure:...
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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 we...
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13-16 Ye are the salt of the earth. Mankind, lying in ignorance and
wickedness, were as a vast heap, ready to putrify; but Christ sent
forth his disciples, by their lives and doctrines to season it w...
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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 world, ye...
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV
But He is the Creator, who does also through Christ prepare lights in
the world, [namely] those who believe from among the Gentiles. And He
says, "Ye are the light o...
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Matthew 5:14 You G5210 are G2075 (G5748) light G5457 world G2889 city
G4172 set G2749 (G5740) on...
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“You are the light of the world.
A city set on a hill cannot be hid.
Nor do men light a lamp, and put it under the bushel measure, but on
the stand,
And it shines to all who are in the house.
Even...
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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 AND...
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RATHER THAN DESERVING REPROACH AND CALUMNIATION THEY ARE TO BE THE
SALT OF THE EARTH AND THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD (5:13-16).
Having commenced His sermon by revealing what the disciples are, by
virtue of...
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THE DISCIPLES ARE THE SALT OF THE EARTH (5:13-14).
Jesus' first declaration about His disciples is that they are the salt
of the earth. And this is then followed by a grave warning. For it is
possibl...
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The scene (Matthew 5:1), the formal preface of the Evangelist (Matthew
5:2); the opening description of the citizens of the kingdom of heaven
(Matthew 5:3-10); their relation to the world ...
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Matthew 5:14. THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. 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
it...
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GENERAL CHARACTER. The magna charta of Christ's Kingdom: the unfolding
of His righteousness; the sublimest code of morals ever proclaimed on
earth; the counterpart of the legislation on Mount Sinai; C...
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WORLD
"kosmos", means "mankind."
(_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 4:8). _...
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Matthew 5:13
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," and...
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Matthew 5:14
I. Contemplate the Christian man as light in himself. Notice some of
the instances in Scripture in which light is spoken of in reference to
the people of God. (1) The Psalmist says, "Ligh...
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Matthew 5:14
I. "Ye are the light of the world." The words are, so to speak, a
reflection of a higher and more perfect truth which was to be spoken
hereafter by our Lord Himself. "I am," He said, "the...
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Matthew 5:1. _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 gathered a...
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Matthew 5:13. _Ye are the salt of the earth:_
The earth would go putrid if there were no salt of grace to preserve
it. So, dear friends, if God's grace is in you, there is a pungent
savor about you w...
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CONTENTS: Sermon on the mount. Beatitudes. Believer as salt and light.
Christ's relation to the law. Divorce.
CHARACTERS: God, Jesus.
CONCLUSION: The relationship of a child of God will be manifeste...
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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 upon t...
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YOU ARE LIKE LIGHT. Light is symbolic of truth. Christians are to
spread truth to destroy ignorance. A _city._ Ancient cities were built
on hills for defence, and were clearly visible. So should Chris...
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_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 LIGHT OF THE...
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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 5:1 The Authoritative Message of the
Messiah: Kingdom Life for His Disciples. This is the first of five
major teaching sections in Matthew 1:1 (chs....
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Jesus teaches about being the light of the world Matthew 5:14-16; Mark
4:21-22; Luke 8:16-18; Luke 11:33-36;...
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CHAPTER 5
_Went up into a mountain._ Let us inquire what mountain this was?
"Some simple brethren," says S. Jerome, "think that Christ taught the
Beatitudes, and the things which follow, on the mount...
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_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 po...
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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 ground by the lake. I...
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Tonight we have the Sermon on the Mount, what a fantastic portion of
scripture. Matthew five,
And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he has
sat down, his disciples came unto...
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1 Thessalonians 5:5; 2 Corinthians 6:14; Ephesians 5:8; Genesis 11:4;...
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THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT
Matthew 5:1
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 crowd of p...
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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
hil...
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Are believers the light of the world, or is Jesus?
PROBLEM: In this passage, Jesus said to His disciples, “You are the
light of the world.” However, in John 9:5, Jesus declared, “I am
the light of th...
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Observe here, 1. Our Saviour's doctrine.
2. The inference which he draws from it by way of application.
The doctrine delivered is this, That Christians in general and the
ministers of the gospel in...