1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Matthew 5:15 | *Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but upon a candlestick, that it may give light to all that are in the house. Mark 4:21.; Luke 8:16. et 11:33. | 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. (St. 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 St. Augustine than that all are blind, who shut their eyes against the candle which is set on the candlestick? (Tract 2:in ep. Jo.) |