2 Corinthians 11:3; Acts 2:46; Colossians 3:22; Ephesians 6:5; Luke 11:34-36
The light of the body ... - The sentiment stated in the preceding verses - the duty of fixing the affections on heavenly things - Jesus proceeds...
(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...
True Righteousness in Relation to Wealth. The Sermon here passes from the shortcomings of the Scribes and Pharisees. There are scattered parallels...
light . lamp. Greek. luchnos. App-130. single . clear.
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 sentence...
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...
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 - That is...
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...
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...
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...
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. seein...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
See Poole on " Matthew 6:23 " .
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 The idea conveyed by a "single eye" appears to be, from its etymology, threefold. First, it means clear, with no film; secondly, it m...
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...
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 clear...
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 light of the body is the eye; if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
The parable of the eye:
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...
22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.