Proverbs 20:27 (WEB)
The spirit of man is the LORD’s lamp, searching all his innermost parts.
Fathers and councils · 3
Augustine of Hippo
“Because, although what you do with an intent which is neither upright nor pure, may turn out for some one’s good, it is the way in which you have done it, not how it has turned out for him, that is reckoned to you.” — editor's note: The eye is as the lamp (Revised Version) through which the body gets light,—the organ whose proper work it is to transmit light. The blind have no light,…
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Gregory the Great
“For that the mind is called the belly is taught by that sentence in which it is written, The spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord, which searcheth all the secret parts of the belly (Ibid.” — the author cites it
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Clement of Alexandria
“For the Scripture somewhere says, “The Spirit of the Lord is a lamp, searching the recesses of the belly.”” — editor's note: Prov. xx. 27.
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Cross-references · 4
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.13.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.13.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.13.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.13.