 | Charles Gore - 1924 - 392 trang
...its appeal to the world mainly by the life which men saw it living. In this way His disciples were to be the salt of the earth, the light of the world, the city set on a hill. And when the Church recovered herself from her first moral peril, due to the... | |
 | Maynard J. Geiger - 1959 - 504 trang
...have been repugnant, if not impossible. In their private and public lives these "college men" were to be "the salt of the earth, the light of the world, and a city set on a mountain" in the language of the college chronicle. As apostolic missionaries they... | |
 | David Ray Griffin - 1989 - 188 trang
...are to embody recognition of transcendence within the temporal order or, in more evangelical terms, to be the salt of the earth, the light of the world, the leaven in the mass. In this teaching, the primary institutional sphere of action for the clergy... | |
 | Craig C. Broyles, Craig A. Evans - 1997 - 506 trang
...appears that this new people of God exists not for themselves but for the sake of the nations: they are to be the salt of the earth, the light of the world, a city built on a hill, letting their light shine (Matt 5:13-16). In Matthew's final scene, the eleven... | |
 | Elizabeth-Anne Stewart - 1999 - 300 trang
...experience. To the extent that we have a communal memory, we assent to much the same as everyone else: to be the salt of the earth, the light of the world, a crucified people, a risen people, a redeemed people, inheritors of the reign of God. However, what... | |
 | Oi Ki Ling - 1999 - 316 trang
...social regeneration of China. Without adequate attention to social justice the claims of the Church as "the salt of the earth," "the light of the world," and "the leaven in the bread" sounded hollow. The Christian message appeared to the suffering Chinese to be... | |
 | Alexander B. Bruce - 580 trang
...know that the elect part is chosen not merely for its own sake, but also for the sake of the whole, to be the salt of the earth, the light of the world, and the leaven to leaven the corrupt mass. 1 We simply observe that the power of the Saviour is not compulsory.... | |
 | Daniel J. Harrington, James F. Keenan - 2002 - 244 trang
...the service that they perform for the world is expressed with the help of three images in 5:13—16: the salt of the earth, the light of the world, and the city built on a hill. The second part (see Matthew 5:17—48) concerns Jesus and the Jewish Law. The... | |
 | Ron J. Bigalke - 2003 - 370 trang
...wonderful insights into what it means to be a real Christian in these exciting Last Days. It challenges us to be the salt of the earth... the light of the world... a city that is set on a hill (ML 5:13, 14). It demolishes the "hunkerdown" mentality by giving us a... | |
 | Nicholas Thomas Wright - 1992 - 768 trang
...avoided in the case of the words about salt and light (5.1316). They sound a challenge to Israel: she is to be the salt of the earth, the light of the world. That always was her vocation: to be a nation of priests, to be YHWH's servant, so that his glory might... | |
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... the light of the world, and the leaven to leaven the corrupt mass.1 We simply observe that the power of the Saviour is not compulsory. 
