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The light of the body ... - The sentiment stated in the preceding verses - the duty of fixing the affections on heavenly things - Jesus proceeds...
True Righteousness in Relation to Wealth. The Sermon here passes from the shortcomings of the Scribes and Pharisees. There are scattered parallels...
23. 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 o...
DISCOURSE: 1322 THE SINGLE EYE Matthew 6:22-23 . The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be ful...
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!...
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...
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darknes...
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 expec...
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 w...
If thine eye be evil. — If the spiritual faculty, whose proper work it is to give light, be itself diseased — if it discerns not singly but doubly,...
Chapter 7 The Gospel of the Kingdom ("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1-48 ; Matthew 6:1-34 ; Matthew 7:1-29 IT may seem almost heresy to...
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 in...
In the first verse the Revised Version has substituted the word "righteousness" for "alms," "a reading approved of, almost unanimously, by the great...
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...
But if thine eye be evil ,.... If thou art of a sordid disposition, of an avaricious temper, if the sin of covetousness prevails over thee, thy wh...
Verse 1 warns against practicing righteousness (margin) before men to attract their attention. This is self-righteousness, a mere show. How can we ex...
The Sermon on the Mount. 19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where...
Ver. 22,23. You had need look to your hearts, your understanding, judgment, and affections; for look what proportion there is betwixt your bodily 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' att...
2). The Choice As To Where The Eye Will Be Fixed. Jesus now takes a general illustration that He regularly uses (compare Luke 11:34-36 ) in order...
CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 6:19-20 . Lay not up … lay up . An instance of “the idiom of exaggerated contrast.” A literal compliance with the negat...
Matthew 6:22-24 The illustration of the text has a twofold reference. It bears on what went before, and also on what follows. If we lay up treasur...
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. T...
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 o...
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...
EXPOSITION Matthew 6:1-40 The relation of our Lord and his disciples to the religion of the day ( continued ); vide Matthew 5:17 , n...
The parable of the eye:
1 Corinthians 1:18-20 ; 1 Corinthians 2:14 ; 1 Corinthians 3:18 ; 1 Corinthians 3:19 ; 1 John 2:11 ; Ephesians 4:18 ; Ephesians 5:8 ; Isaiah...
23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!