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The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body also is full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.
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Your Eye Receives the Light
Commentators explain that Jesus uses the eye as a metaphor for the soul's understanding or moral sense. Crucially, the eye is not the source of light but the receiver of it. Just as a healthy physical eye lets in light to guide the body, a healthy spiritual understanding, opened by God's Spirit, lets in divine truth to illuminate your entire inner being.
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Luke
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19th Century
Anglican
The light of the body is the eye.—See Note on Matthew 6:22. In some respects the sequence of thought in St. Luke differs …
Baptist
If your religion is irreligion, if your hope is a false one, if your highest aspirations are untrue, what is your position in the sight of God? Whe…
Good eyes admit light, bad ones do not. Jesus implies that the individual is responsible for receiving light. The eye is thus a “lamp,” not in the …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The light of the body is the eye The Vulgate Latin and all the eastern versions read "the light of your body is your…
Presbyterian
Christ promised that one more sign would be given, namely, the sign of Jonah the prophet, which is explained in Matthew as meaning the resurrection…
