Gundry notes that at this time cities would frequently have been located on hills for defensive reasons. In Thomas the focus of the verse is on the city's security and impregnability rather than its symbolism. This verse is unparalleled elsewhere in the New Testament, but a version of it is found in the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas. It may be related to the expression "salt and light", which was then used to describe the Law. This verse has a fairly sudden shift of metaphor from "salt of the earth" to "city on a hill". A city located on a hill can't be hidden. The World English Bible translates the passage as: A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads:
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