10主耶稣在马太五章十三节说到地,在十四节说到世界。地需要盐,而世界需要光。黑暗不是在地上,乃是在世界里;世界指人类的社会,撒但的系统。世界这个撒但的系统,黑暗的人类社会,需要光。十四节里世上的光,乃是灯的照耀,光照在黑暗里的人。对于这黑暗的世界,诸天之国的子民就是这样的光,除去世界的黑暗(新约总论第五册,一一四至一一五页)。
10In Matthew 5:13 the Lord Jesus spoke of the earth and in verse 14, of the world. For the earth there is the need of salt, but for the world there is the need of light. The darkness is not upon the earth; rather, it is in the world, which denotes human society, a system of Satan. The world, Satan’s system, the dark human society, needs light. The light of the world in verse 14 is the shining of a lamp to enlighten those in darkness. To the darkened world, the people of the kingdom of the heavens are such a light effacing its darkness. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 1158-1159)