‹The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when› [thine eye] ‹is evil, thy body also› [is] ‹full of darkness.›
KJV
Greek original
ὁ λύχνος τοῦ σώματός ἐστιν ὁ ὀφθαλμός σου ὅταν ὁ ὀφθαλμός σου ἁπλοῦς ᾖ καὶ ὅλον τὸ σῶμά σου φωτεινόν ἐστιν ἐπὰν δὲ πονηρὸς ᾖ καὶ τὸ σῶμά σου σκοτεινόν
Louis Segond 1910
Ton oeil est la lampe de ton corps. Lorsque ton oeil est en bon état, tout ton corps est éclairé; mais lorsque ton oeil est en mauvais état, ton corps est dans les ténèbres.
KJV
‹The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when› [thine eye] ‹is evil, thy body also› [is] ‹full of darkness.›
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
ill him afterwards. Objection 3: Further, a perverse intention vitiates the whole work, according to Lk. 11:34 : "If thy eye be evil, thy" whole "body will be darksome." But the sacraments of Christ cannot be contaminated by evil men; as Augustine says against Petilian (Cont. Lit…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 133 (Migne)
r? Sicut scriptum est: «Si fuerit oculus tuus simplex, totum corpus tuum lucidum erit [Col. 0252D] (Luc. XI, 34) .» Cum ergo verbosi amici sunt, id est, cum et ipsi derogant, qui in fide sociantur ad Deum necesse est ut oculus stillet, quatenus nostra intentio tota in amoris int…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 156 (Migne)
o oculus ejus insedit, qui locus sic se habuit: «Lucerna corporis tui est oculus [Col. 0900C] tuus (Luc. XI, 34) .» Diacono itaque, qui in processione Evangelii textum erat praelaturus, imperat ut post osculum quod argenteae imagini exterius affixae libassem, digito loco illi, q…
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