15
Neither do you light a lamp and put it under a measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house.
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Verse 15. This light of the world, city on a mountain, and candle upon a candlestick, signify the Catholic Church, so built upon Christ, the mountain, that it must be visible, and cannot be hidden or unknown. Saint Augustine cont. Fulg. Therefore the Church being a candle not under a bushel, but shining to all in the house, that is in the world, what shall I say more, saith Saint Augustine than that all are blind, who shut their eyes against the candle which is set on the candlestick? Tract ii. in ep. Jo.
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