Mat 5:15 | Clarke | e4.org | Verse 15. Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel ] A bushel μοδιος:-a measure both among the Greeks and Romans, containing a little more than a peck English. From some ancient writers we learn, that only those who had bad designs hid a candle under a bushel; that, in the dead of the night, when all were asleep, they might rise up, and have light at hand to help them to effect their horrid purposes of murder, &c. See Wetstein , Kypke, Wolf , &c.

‏ Matthew 5:15

Verse 15. Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel] A bushel μοδιος:-a measure both among the Greeks and Romans, containing a little more than a peck English. From some ancient writers we learn, that only those who had bad designs hid a candle under a bushel; that, in the dead of the night, when all were asleep, they might rise up, and have light at hand to help them to effect their horrid purposes of murder, &c. See Wetstein, Kypke, Wolf, &c.