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Matthew 6:22
The light of the body is the eye; if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
The light of the body is the eye; if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
Verse Matthew 6:22. _THE LIGHT OF THE BODY IS THE EYE_] That is, the eye is to the body what the sun is to the universe in the day time, or a lamp or candle to a house at night. _IF-THINE EYE BE SIN...
THE LIGHT OF THE BODY ... - The sentiment stated in the preceding verses - the duty of fixing the affections on heavenly things - Jesus proceeds to illustrate by a reference to the “eye.” When the eye...
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The Better Righteousness.(Matthew 6:1 .) 2. Kept in the World; Single-eyed; Trusting God.(Matthew 6:19 .)_ Our Lord said: “For I say unto you, that unless your righteousness surpass th...
TRUE RIGHTEOUSNESS IN RELATION TO WEALTH. The Sermon here passes from the shortcomings of the Scribes and Pharisees. There are scattered parallels to this section in Lk. MATTHEW 6:19. TREASURE (Luke...
THE REWARD MOTIVE IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE (Matthew 6:1-18) When we study the opening verses of Matthew 6:1-34, we are immediately confronted with one most important question-- What is the place of the...
The light of the body is the eye. So then, if your eye is generous, the whole body will be full of light; but if your eye is grudging, your whole body will be in the dark. If, then, the light which is...
LIGHT. lamp. Greek. _luchnos._ App-130. SINGLE. clear....
_The light_ Rather, LAMP, or CANDLE as it is translated ch. Matthew 5:15. The eye is not itself the light, but contains the light; it is the "lamp" or candle of the body, the light-conveying principle...
Ὁ ΛΎΧΝΟΣ. ‘The lamp.’ See ch. Matthew 5:15, where the A.V. gives to λύχνος the meaning of ‘candle’; the translation here ‘light’ is still less correct. The eye is not its self the light, but contains...
VER 22. "THE LIGHT OF THE BODY IS THE EYE: IF THEREFORE THINE EYE BE SINGLE, THY WHOLE BODY SHALL BE FULL OF LIGHT. 23. BUT IF THINE EYE BE EVIL, THY WHOLE BODY SHALL BE FULL OF DARKNESS. IF THEREFORE...
_THE ACTIONS OF SHINNING, SERVING AND LIVING MATTHEW 6:22-34:_ God's desire is for our "whole body to be full of light." A good eye leads to a shinning life. A bad eye will lead to a life of darkness....
ΛΎΧΝΟΣ (G3088) свет, светильник (_см._ Matthew 5:15; TDNT; о сравнении ока со светильником _см._ DA). ΈΆΝ, _см._ Matthew 6:14. ΆΠΛΟΎΣ (G573) чистый, ясный, здравый, искренний, щедрый, в противоположн...
DISCOURSE: 1322 THE SINGLE EYE Matthew 6:22. _The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall...
THE LIGHT OF THE BODY IS THE EYE—SINGLE—EVIL— The _eye is the lamp of the body;—clear_ or _pure;—bad_ or _vitiated._ Heylin. Mr. Locke has observed, that the _modes of thinking,_ as he speaks, that is...
E. THE WEALTH AND WORRIES OF THE WISE AND GODLY MAN (Matthew 6:19-34) TEXT 6:19-34 1. HIS ATTITUDE TOWARD EARTHLY TREASURES. (6:19-21) 19. Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth. where m...
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single thy whole body shall be full of light The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be fu...
14-15 Compare Mar_11:25-26. 14 Forgiveness now is according to the riches of His grace (Eph_1:7), not according to our forgiveness of others. The believers in Israel failed at this point. Their forgi...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT (CONTINUED) 1. God's approval, not man's, to be sought in all our actions. Jesus does not say that we are to do good expecting no reward of any kind, but that we are to look fo...
THE LIGHT] RV 'the lamp.' THE BODY] In the parable the 'body' stands for the soul of man. THINE EYE] i.e. thy conscience. SINGLE] i.e. seeing things in their true light....
SINGLEMINDEDNESS IN GOD'S SERVICE, AND HOW IT IS TO BE ATTAINED (Luke 11:34; Luke 16:13). The connexion of thought is—How can we be sure that we are laying up treasure in heaven, and acting simply and...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 6 THE RIGHT WAY TO GIVE GIFTS 6:1-4 V1 ‘Be careful not to show how good you are in front of other people. Do not do your good works...
THE LIGHT OF THE BODY.-Literally, _the lamp of the body._ So in Proverbs 20:27, “The spirit of man is the candle (or ‘lamp’) of the Lord” — that which, under the name of “conscience,” the “moral sense...
CHAPTER 7 The Gospel of the Kingdom ("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1; Matthew 6:1; Matthew 7:1 IT may seem almost heresy to object to the time-honoured title "Sermon on the Mount"; yet, so smal...
_Counsels against covetousness and care_ (reproduced in Luke 12:22-34, with exception of Matthew 6:22-23, which reappear in Luke 11:34-36). An interpolation, according to Weiss. Doubtless, if the Serm...
_Parable of the eye_. A difficult passage; connection obscure, and the evangelic report apparently imperfect. The parallel passage in Luke (Luke 11:33-36) gives little help. The figure and its ethical...
WHAT TO SEEK AND WHOM TO SERVE Matthew 6:19-26 What is in our inner life which answers to the eye of the body? Some have said that it is the intellect; others the heart. But it is truer to say that...
In the first verse the Revised Version has substituted the word "righteousness" for "alms," "a reading approved of, almost unanimously, by the great editors and critics" (Morrison). This is a statemen...
(7) The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine (g) eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. (7) Men maliciously and wickedly put out even the little light of nature that is in...
Every action is lighted or directed by the intention. If the intention be upright, the whole body of the action is good, provided it proceed not from a false conscience. If the intention be bad, how b...
CHAPTER 16 SERMON ON THE MOUNT Matthew 5-7, and Luke 6:20-49. A few days ago it was my privilege to spend two beautiful bright days at the sea of Galilee, sailing over it, and visiting the places of...
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. These directions of our LORD...
God has been pleased, in the separate accounts He has given us of our Lord Jesus, to display not only His own grace and wisdom, but the infinite excellency of His Son. It is our wisdom to seek to prof...
_SINGLENESS OF EYE_ ‘The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.’ Matthew 6:22 The finest organ of the body is the ‘eye.’ Therefore it...
Matthew 6:22._The light of the body is the eye _We must bear in mind, as I have already hinted, that what we find here are detached sentences, and not a continued discourse. The substance of the prese...
This discourse gives the principles of the kingdom, but supposes the rejection of the King, and the position into which this would bring those that were His; who consequently must look for a heavenly...
THE LIGHT OF THE BODY IS THE EYE,.... Or, the "candle of the body is the eye"; for the eye is that in the body, as a candle is in the house; by the light of it, the several members of the body perform...
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. Ver. 22. _The light of the body is the eye, &c._] Here our blessed Saviour illustrateth what...
_The light_ Or _lamp_ rather, as ο λυχνος should be translated, _of the body, is the eye_ That is, it is by the eye that a person has light to direct him in his bodily motions, and in the use of his b...
SINGLE; healthy and clear, to discern objects aright....
Verse 1 warns against practicing righteousness (margin) before men to attract their attention. This is self-righteousness, a mere show. How can we expect the Father to reward what we do merely to impr...
19-24 Worldly-mindedness is a common and fatal symptom of hypocrisy, for by no sin can Satan have a surer and faster hold of the soul, under the cloak of a profession of religion. Something the soul...
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First Apology of Justin And let your good works shine before men, that they, seeing them, may glorify your Father which is in heaven."[27] The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs XII The good mind...
Matthew 6:22 lamp G3088 body G4983 is G2076 (G5748) eye G3788 If G1437 therefore G3767 your G4675 eye...
THEY MUST LAY UP THEIR TREASURE IN HEAVEN AS THEY CANNOT SERVE GOD AND MAMMON (6:19-24). Having dealt with the question of what His disciples' attitude is to be towards ‘religious' activity, namely ch...
2). THE CHOICE AS TO WHERE THE EYE WILL BE FIXED. Jesus now takes a general illustration that He regularly uses (compare Luke 11:34) in order to apply it to this particular situation. Again there is n...
CONNECTION AND CONTENTS. The _external connection_ seems to be between ‘they have received their reward,' which closes each of the foregoing examples of false piety, and ‘lay not up for yourselves tre...
GENERAL CHARACTER. The magna charta of Christ's Kingdom: the unfolding of His righteousness; the sublimest code of morals ever proclaimed on earth; the counterpart of the legislation on Mount Sinai; C...
Matthew 6:22. Not an abrupt transition, but an illustration of the importance of dedicating the heart to God supremely. THE LAMP (the same word used in chap. Matthew 5:15, but different from that' re...
SINGLE (απλους). Used of a marriage contract when the husband is to repay the dowry "pure and simple" (την φερνην απλην), if she is set free; but in case he does not do so promptly, he is to add int...
Matthew 6:22 The illustration of the text has a twofold reference. It bears on what went before, and also on what follows. If we lay up treasures on earth, that will produce an evil eye; if we try to...
Matthew 6:22 The idea conveyed by a "single eye" appears to be, from its etymology, threefold. First, it means clear, with no film; secondly, it means in opposition to double, seeing one object at a...
Matthew 6:5. _And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men._ We oug...
Matthew 6:1. _Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven._ The motive which leads a man to give, will form the tr...
CONTENTS: Sermon on the Mount, continued. Formalism condemned. The new revelation of prayer (disciples prayer). The law of riches. Cure of anxiety. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus. CONCLUSION: True relationsh...
Matthew 6:1. _Take heed that ye do not your alms before men._ It is a dispute whether alms or righteousness be the true reading. The old copies had righteousness. Chrysostom in one place has righteous...
22-23. THE EYES ARE LIKE A LAMP. This continues the same line of thinking. If your eyes are diseased, everything you see will be distorted. Symbolically the eyes represent the mind and conscience. If...
_The light of the body is the eye._ SINGLENESS OF EYE The man whose only object is to make good his eternity moves forward in an element of clearness, without the doubts which harass other men. I. T...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 6:22 The EYE (similar to the “heart” in Jewish literature) is a LAMP that reveals the quality of a person’s inner life. A HEALTHY eye (clear vision) suggest
CHAPTER 6 _Take heed_. &c. Instead of _alms_, some Greek Codices read _δικαιοσύνην, righteousness_, or _justice._ This is the reading of the Syriac and the Latin Vulgate. The Complutensian, Royal, and...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 6:19. LAY NOT UP … LAY UP. An instance of “the idiom of exaggerated contrast.” A literal compliance with the negative half of this precept would discourage thrift, destroy com...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 6:1 _The_ _relation of our Lord and his disciples to the religion of the day _(_continued_);_ vide _Matthew 5:17, note. (_b_) Our Lord turns from cases which could be directly dedu...
Tonight let's take a look at Matthew, chapter six. We are in the section of the book of Matthew that is commonly called the Sermon on the Mount because it was delivered to the disciples of Jesus on th...
2 Corinthians 11:3; Acts 2:46; Colossians 3:22; Ephesians 6:5;...
Single [α π λ ο υ ς]. The picture underlying this adjective is that of a piece of cloth or other material, neatly folded once, and without a variety of complicated folds. Hence the idea of simplicity...
The eye is the lamp of the body — And what the eye is to the body, the intention is to the soul. We may observe with what exact propriety our Lord places purity of intention between worldly desires an...
In the foregoing verses, our Saviour acquainted us what in our affections and judgments we should esteem as our chief treasure: now this judgment concerning our chief treasure, is by our Saviour here...