Vincent Word Studies - Matthew 5:15 - 5:15

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Vincent Word Studies - Matthew 5:15 - 5:15


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A bushel (τὸν μόδιον)

Rev., rightly, “the bushel;” since the definite article is designed to indicate a familiar object - the grain-measure which is found in every house.

A candlestick (τὴν λυχνίαν)

Rev., the stand. Also a part of the furniture of every house, and commonly but one in the house: hence the article. The word, which occurs four times in the Gospels and eight times elsewhere, means, in every ease, not a candlestick, but a lamp-stand. In Heb 9:2, the golden “candlestick” of the tabernacle is called λυχνία; but in the description of this article (Exo 25:31, Exo 25:39), we read, “Thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof;” and in Zec 4:2, where the imagery is drawn from the sanctuary, we have a “candlestick” with a bowl on the top of it, “and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes (for the oil) to the lamps which are upon the top thereof.”