Hilary of Poitiers, on Matt 5:14

“You are the light of the world. A city seated on a mountain cannot be hid.”

“Or, the city signifies the flesh which He had taken on Him; because that in Him by this assumption of human nature, there was as it were a collection of the human race, and we by partaking in His flesh become inhabitants of that city. He cannot therefore be hid, because being set in the height of God’s power, He is offered to be contemplated of all men in admiration of his works.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.