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Matthew 6:23
New English Translation
Matthew 6:23
New English Translation
23 But if your eye is diseased,[a] your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
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- Matthew 6:23 tn Or “if your eye is sick” (L&N 23.149). sn There may be a slight wordplay here, as this term can also mean “evil,” so the figure uses a term that points to the real meaning of being careful as to what one pays attention to or looks at. Ancient understanding of vision involved light coming into the body from outside, and “light” thus easily becomes a metaphor for teaching. As a “diseased” eye would hinder the passage of light, so in the metaphor Jesus’ teaching would be blocked from being internalized in the hearer.
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