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The eye is evil when the vision is incorrect, double; is single when it lays hold of one object with clearness and firmness. Shut the eye, or if the eye is diseased so as not to be able to see any one object distinctly, and we have the body full of darkness. This is true in the moral universe.

1. Intellectually. He whose judgment is uncertain, &c. He who has clear plans, &c.

2. Morally. He who has clear conceptions of right and wrong; with what freedom and strength he walks forward. There is light in him; there is light before him.

3. Spiritually. What does it mean to have a single eye in the religious world? It means more than supreme love to God. It means that the whole mental and moral nature of the man must be right in its conceptions of religious truths. This may be summed up in five points.

(1) Man must live for ever. The eternal, vital principle is in him. Suicide is not possible.

(2) Man, as a sinner, needs transformation into God's character.

(3) Christ has come from heaven to work the transformation — the atonement.

(4) The necessity for a personal, affectionate faith.

(5) The only way of safety is the exercise of this faith at once.

(R. S. Storrs, D. D.)

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KJV: No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light.

WEB: "No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may see the light.