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If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light."
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A Life Flooded with Light
Commentators explain that this verse is not a simple repetition but a profound statement. It describes a spiritual state where every part of a person's life—the "whole body" or "whole soul"—is illuminated by divine light. When passion, prejudice, and ignorance are absent, the entire character becomes completely flooded with the light of God's truth.
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With its bright shining (τη αστραπη). Instrumental case, as if by a flash of lightning the light is revealed in him. See on 10:18.…
19th Century
Anglican
If thy whole body therefore be full of light.—The statement reads at first like an identical proposition. "If your whole …
Baptist
It was often a great marvel to the onlookers that Christ went among publicans and sinners; but is it not a greater wonder that he went among Pharis…
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The body is only completely lighted when a lamp shines on it from the outside (cf. Ephesians 5:13–14a). That is, full illumination only …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
If thy whole body therefore be full of light That is, if the whole soul, as the Ethiopic version reads, be full of Gospel…
Presbyterian
Christ promised that one more sign would be given, namely, the sign of Jonah the prophet, which is explained in Matthew as meaning the resurrection…
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