No one lights a lamp and then puts it in a cellar or under a bushel basket, but rather on a lampstand so that those who come in can see the light. Your eye is the body's lamp. When your eye is clear, your whole body is flooded with light. When your eye is clouded, your body is shrouded in darkness. Take care, then, that the light within you is not darkness. If then, your whole body is flooded with light, and no corner of it is darkness, it will be completely illuminated as when a lamp's rays engulf you."

...an insight from Jesus in Luke 11:33-36

This Herodian Lamp is an actual archeological discovery from the time of Jesus. The flame is constructed from photographs of a wick burning olive oil - as this lamp would have burned. This then, is the sort of light that Jesus had in mind when he suggested his metaphor of light.   ...jmct,

Your eye is the body's lamp.