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But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
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The “Evil Eye” Explained
Commentators widely agree that the “evil eye” is not a physical condition but a spiritual one. It represents a heart that is not singularly focused on God but is instead “diseased” with greed, selfishness, and worldly desires. Just as a bad eye plunges the body into physical darkness, a heart divided by worldly treasures plunges the entire person into moral and spiritual darkness.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The light of the body, etc. The sentiment stated in the preceding verses—the duty of fixing our affections on heavenly things—Jesus procee…
19th Century
Anglican
If thine eye be evil — If the spiritual faculty, whose proper work is to give light, is itself diseased—if it does not see singly …
Baptist
The motive is the eye of the soul, and if it is clear, the whole character will be right, but if it is polluted, our whole being will become defile…
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Through the eye the body finds its way. The eye lets in light, and so the whole body is illuminated. But bad eyes let in no light, and the body is …
16th Century
Protestant
If the light which is in thee be darkness. Light signifies that small portion of reason which continues to exist in men since the fall of …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But if your eye be evil If you are of a sordid disposition, of an avaricious temper, if the sin of covetousness prev…
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Worldly-mindedness is a common and fatal symptom of hypocrisy, for by no sin can Satan have a surer and firmer hold of the soul, under the cloak of…
13th Century
Catholic
Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth. Above, the Lord prescribed that we do not do works for the sake of [human] …
