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Mat_5:14. Τὸ φῶς τοῦ κόσμου ] As the natural light illumines the world, which in itself is dark, so are ye intended to spiritually enlighten humanity. Christ is principaliter the Light (Joh_1:4; Joh_9:8; Joh_9:12, al.); the disciples mediate (Eph_3:9), as the mediators of His divine truth to men; and all Christians in general are, as those who are enlightened, also, on their part, bringers of light, and light in the Lord (Php_2:15; Eph_5:8).
οὐ δύναται πόλις , κ . τ . λ .] If you would desire timidly to withdraw into concealment (comp. Mat_5:11; Mat_5:13), then that would be conduct as opposed to the purpose for which you are destined as if a town set on a hill should wish to be concealed, or if one were to place (Mat_5:15) a light under a bushel.
No definite town is intended; Saphet has been conjectured; see, on the other hand, Robinson, Pal. III. p. 587. We are not to think of Jerusalem (whose destination the disciples are, in the opinion, of Weizsäcker, to realize, p. 336). It is just any city in general situated upon a hill.