You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.
Ye are the 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.
The apostles are salt of the earth because they carry the doctrine of the Gospel, penetrating, cleansing, preserving, to all the world. Though few and weak, this salt diffuses its savor far and wide, working insensibly and irresistibly as leaven, reaching the heart where force of arms could never reach.
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Commenting on Matthew 5:13-16
Our Lord appropriates to Himself alone the title 'the light of the world'; His disciples shine with His light only as His Spirit dwells in them. Salt works internally, hidden in the mass; light operates externally, irradiating all it reaches, so Christians are salt where they mix with the world, but light where they shine upon its vast surface.
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