Matthew 6:23 (WEB)
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!
Fathers and councils · 16
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus VII.33Book VII
“To see God belongs to the pure heart, out of which no longer proceed “evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies, the evil eye,” or any other evil thing.” — editor's note: Matt. xv. 19 and vi. 23.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X II.2Conference II
“…thy body is thine eye: but if thine eye be single, thy whole body will be full of light, but if thine eye be evil, thy whole body will be full of darkness:” because as it discerns all the thoughts and actions of men, it sees and overlooks all things which should be done.” — editor's note: S. Matt. vi. 22, 23.
Read the whole comment - John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.5Conference XXIII
“…and want has incurred this sentence of reproof from the Lord: “Be not anxious for your life what ye shall eat, nor for your body what ye shall put on”?” — editor's note: S. Matt. vi. 23.
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John Chrysostom
“But if the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is the darkness!”” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 22, 23. [In verse 23, “If therefore” is the correct reading, and some mss. of the Homilies have this reading here.—R.]
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Jerome
“And in the next sentence “If,” says he, “thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness.” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 23–24.
Read the whole comment“Every one has the right forthwith to say to you, “If the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is the darkness.”” — editor's note: Matt. vi. 23.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
Having spoken of the bringing the understanding into captivity because it was not easy to be understood of many, He transfers it to a sensible instance, saying, “The light of thy body is thy eye.” As though He had…
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That is an illustration drawn from the senses. As the whole body is in darkness, where the eye is not single, so if the soul has lost her original brightness, every sense, or that whole part of the soul to which…
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It seems that He is not here speaking of the bodily eye, or of the outward body that is seen, or He would have said, If thine eye be sound, or weak; but He says, “single,” and, “evil.” But if one have a benign yet…
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Those who have thick eye-sight see the lights multiplied; but the single and clear eye sees them single and clear.
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Or; The eye He speaks of is not the external but the internal eye. The light is the understanding, through which the soul sees God. He whose heart is turned to God, has an eye full of light; that is, his…
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Otherwise; from the office of the light of the eye, He calls it the light of the heart; which if it continue single and brilliant, will confer on the body the brightness of the eternal light, and pour again into the…
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Otherwise; by the eye here we may understand our purpose; if that be pure and right, all our works which we work according thereto are good. These He here calls the body, as the Apostle speaks of certain works as…
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But acts which are known to be in themselves sins, are not to be done as with a good purpose; but such works only as are either good or bad, according as the motives from which they are done are either good or bad,…
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Otherwise; if the light that “is in thee,” that is, if what we have begun to do well, we overcloud with evil purpose, when we do things which we know to be in themselves evil, “how great is the darkness!”
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Otherwise; faith is likened to a light, because by it the goings of the inner man, that is, action, are lightened, that he should not stumble according to that, “Thy word is a light to my feet.” [Ps 119:105] If that…
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Cross-references · 17
Cited together in Homilies on Matthew Homily 20.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.33.
Cited together in Conferences I–X II.2.
Cited together in Homilies on Matthew Homily 20.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.5.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 6:22–23 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Homilies on Matthew Homily 20.
Cited together in Homilies on Matthew Homily 20.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.5.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.5.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.33.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.5.
Cited together in Homilies on Matthew Homily 20.
Cited together in Homilies on Matthew Homily 20.
Cited together in Homilies on Matthew Homily 20.
Cited together in Homilies on Matthew Homily 20.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.33.