Eyes Are The Windows To the Soul

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What Are Yours Eyes Saying?

Biblical Commentary on the New Testament by Dr. Hermann Olshausen, Volumes 1–6 § 3. Christ’s Sermon on the Mount (Matth. 4:23–7:29)

Thus the eye, with the light which flows to it, is that which itself illuminates, which makes light—a view which is optically true.* The condition of the bodily eye, however, modifies its action: ἁπλοῦς, single—πονηρός = διπλοῦς, double-sighted, as it were (ver. 24), or even totally blind, to which σκοτεινόν, dark, refers. Just in the same way the Saviour views the spirit’s inward eye—the reason—the power of receiving divine things.† Its capacity for the higher light implies the nature of light in it, whence φῶς ἐν σοί = λύχνος, ver. 22. Jesus accordingly does not teach the absolute moral depravity of man.

Matt 6.22-24 “22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. Therefore if your eye is sincere, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. Therefore if the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! 24 “No one is able to serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You are not able to serve God and money.”

The Light

Mounce’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words (λύχνος)

[3394] λύχνος lychnos 14× a light, lamp, candle, etc., Mt. 5:15; Mk. 4:21; met. a lamp, as a figure of a distinguished teacher, Jn. 5:35 [3088] See candle, candlestick; lamp, lampstand.

Matt 5.15 “15 nor do they light a lamp and place it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it shines on all those in the house.”

Matt 5.16 “16 In the same way let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.”

Work

Mounce’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words (ἔργον)

[2240] ἔργον ergon 169× anything done or to be done; a deed, work, action, Jn. 3:21; Eph. 2:10; 2 Cor. 9:8, et al. freq.; duty enjoined, office, charge, business, Mk. 13:34; Jn. 4:34, et al. freq.; a process, course of action, Jas. 1:4; a work, product of an action or process, Acts 7:41; Heb. 1:10; substance in effect, Rom. 2:15 [2041] See work.

The Body

Mounce’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words σῶμα

[5393] σῶμα sōma 142× the body of an animal; a living body, Mt. 5:29, 30; 6:22, 23, 25; Jas. 3:3; a person, individual, 1 Cor. 6:16; a dead body; corpse, carcass, Mt. 14:12; 27:52, 58; Heb. 13:11; the human body considered as the seat and occasion of moral imperfection, as inducing to sin through its appetites and passions, Rom. 7:24; 8:13; genr. a body, a material substance, 1 Cor. 15:37, 38, 40; the substance, reality, as opposed to ἡ σκιά, Col. 2:17; in NT met., the aggregate body of believers, the body of the Church, Rom. 12:5; Col. 1:18 [4983] See body.

The Eye

Mounce’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words ὀφθαλμός

[4057] ὀφθαλμός ophthalmos 100× an eye, Mt. 5:29, 38; 6:23; 7:3, 4, 5; ὀφθαλμὸς πονηρός, an evil eye, an envious eye, envy, Mt. 20:15; Mk. 7:22; met. the intellectual eye, Mt. 13:15; Mk. 8:18; Jn. 12:40; Acts 26:18 [3788] See eye.

Mounce’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words (ἁπλοῦς)

[606] ἁπλοῦς haplous 2× pr. single; hence, simple, uncompounded; sound, perfect, Mt. 6:22; Lk. 11:34* [573]

Meaning of uncompounded not constituting a compound an uncompounded substance.

Example: if your Have a Stream of water Flowing and you have Rocks, and Trees, and algae in the way it is interfering with the flow of water.

So if there is inference in your body the Light will reveal it which is the word of God or the Holy Spirit. Whether its lying,

Cheating, Stealing, sexual Sins Fornication Adultery Etc.

Ever wondered why God chose David and not Saul?

There was Jesse which had Seven Sons and Samuel asked Eliab, to go Before the Lord not this one then Abinadad Him either Then there was David a keeper of the sheep the youngest of the Brother.

1 Sam 16.7 “7 But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For God does not see what man sees, for a man looks on the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks on the heart.””

Here are some Scripture Ref. for Eyes

2 kings 6.17 “17 Then Elisha prayed and said, “O Yahweh, please open his eyes that he may see,” and Yahweh opened the eyes of the servant, and he saw, and look, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.”

Acts 9.18 “18 And immediately something like scales fell from his eyes and he regained his sight and got up and was baptized,”

Mark 8.25 “25 Then he placed his hands on his eyes again, and he opened his eyes and was cured, and could see everything clearly.”

Matt 5.28 “28 But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman to lust for her has already

committed adultery with her in his heart.”

Matt 5.29 “29 And if your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it from you! For it is better for you that one of your members be destroyed than your whole body be thrown into hell.”

Example:If you have a problem with Lust for example and you are around a group of men that are talking about women's Breast. Butts, and Private Parts what do you do stay there and indulge in the conversation no Take that eye out in another words don”t partake of the fruit. same with women as well.

Pro 20.12 “12 The ear that hears and the eye that sees, Yahweh has made them both.”

Prov 21.4 “4 Haughtiness of the eyes and pride of heart, the lamp of the wicked are sin.”

Ps 38.10 “10 My heart throbs violently, my strength leaves me; and the light of my eyes, that also is not with me.”

Ps 119.18 “18 Uncover my eyes, that I may look at wonderful things from your law.”

Job 31.1 “1 “I made a covenant with my eyes, so how could I look closely upon a virgin?”

Job 31.7 “7 If my steps have turned aside from the way, and my heart has walked after my eyes, and my hand has clung to a spot,”

1 Cor 10.12-13 “12 Therefore, the one who thinks that he stands must watch out lest he fall. 13 Temptation has not come upon you except what is common to humanity. But God is faithful, who will not permit you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but will also make a way out together with the temptation, so that you may be able to endure it.”

Lk 11.33-36 “33 “No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a cellar or under a bushel basket, but on a lampstand, so that those who come in can see the light. 34 Your eye is the lamp of the body. When your eye is sincere, your whole body is full of light also. But when it is evil, your body is dark also. 35 Therefore pay careful attention that the light in you is not darkness! 36 If therefore your whole body is full of light, not having any part dark, it will be completely full of light, as when the lamp with its light gives light to you.””

"The soul, therefore, is a living essence, uncomplicated, incorporeal, invisible – in its proper nature – to the eyes of the body, immortal, reasoning and intelligent, formless, making use of an organic body and being the source of its powers of life, growth, sensation and generation, the intellect being its purest part though not in any way alien to it (as the eye is to the body, so the intellect is to the soul). It has power over itself, its volition and energy, and is mutable, i.e., able to be changed, because it is created. All of these features are natural to it through the Grace imparted by its Creator, and its being and nature are thus because of this same Grace which it has received".