Matthew 6:22-23

Submitted by adam on Wed, 2009-05-06 07:07

Any ideas about the meaning of this parable?
The context is talking about laying up treasures in heaven and not being able to serve God and wealth. 

Mat 6:22-23 (NIV) "The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! 

(KJV) The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.  But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! 

 

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Aunt Judy says:

Here is a link to an article that I think discusses this pretty well (and yet still leaves me a little confused).  The story about paying the workers the same amount of money even tho some worked 12 hours and some worked 1 hour.  The grumbling of the ones who worked 12 hours was viewed as begruding the master his generosity and the other workers their good fortune.  There is a lesson here but I don't see that it actually conveys the idea of not serving two gods, etc.  Just that they were too concerned with what was being paid someone else.......they showed the 'bad eye'.  See what you think.

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