John Bengel Commentary - Matthew 6:22 - 6:22

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John Bengel Commentary - Matthew 6:22 - 6:22


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Mat 6:22. Ὁ ὀφθαλμός, the eye) This is the subject of the proposition.[275]-ἐὰν οὖν, if therefore) The particle οὖν (therefore) agrees exactly with the scope of the passage, and has been easily left out by some who have understood it, though they omitted it.[276] We will not linger on such matters.-ἀπλοῦς, single, simple) The word simplicity never occurs in the sacred writings in a bad sense. ἀπλοῦς signifies here simple and good, singly intent on heaven, on God. Here is an antithesis between ἀπλοῦς, single, in this verse, and δυσὶ, two, in Mat 6:24. That which is propounded figuratively in Mat 6:22-23, is declared in plain words in the following verses.-φωτεινὸν, full of light) As if it were all eye.

[275] Not as in E. V. “THE LIGHT of the body is the eye.” but “THE EYE is the light of the body.”-ED.

[276] i.e. Those who omitted the word actually when copying in the text must have supplied it mentally when reading it.-(I. B.)

Οὖν is the reading of B; b has enim; ac Hil. 520 omit it.-ED.