Matthew Poole and continuators on Mark 4:21

21 And he said unto them, Is a candel brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?

The import of this verse may be learned from Matth. 5.15, 16. where the words are, and applyed by an Exhortation to holiness, being an Argument drawn from the End, for which Men receive Gifts and Grace from God, which is not only for their own advantage, tho (like the Husbandman) those that have it, reap first of their own fruit, but for the good, and advantage of others also. Some think that Christ here speaketh of himself, who is the Light of the World, and therefore opened this Parable unto them. But the context in Matthew guiding us to the true sense of the Words, I see no reason for us to busy our selves in searching out another, especially when the connexion is so fair with the foregoing Words, where he had been describing the good ground by bringing forth fruit, some thirty, some sixty, some an hundred fold. What therefore the sowing the seed in the good ground, mentioned in the Parable is, that is the lighting up of a Candel in this verse, and the Light shewed by the lighted Candel, not put under a Vessel, or a Bed, but in a Candlestick, is the same thing with the Fruit before mentioned.

Marginal references: Luke 8.16. A Measure [illegible: 2 letters]ntaining sixteen sexta [illegible: 2 letters]. viz. M[illegible: 1 letter]tth. 5.15.