A verse from Matthew is a little difficult to understand. He seems to disagree with the Sermon on the Mountain, with little connection to what happens before and after:
“The eyes are the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will glow; but if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be in darkness. So if the light in you is darkness, what great darkness!Be? Matthew 6: 22-23
Before him: the well-known saying about not accumulating treasures on earth:
Do not accumulate other treasures for you on earth, where moths and rust corrode and thieves dig and steal; but it gathers other treasures in the sky, where it does not erode, where rust does not rust and where thieves do not dig or steal; because where is your treasure, there will be your heart too?Matthew 6: 19-21
After him: the family member too, talking about not serving God and money:
? No one can serve two lords; because either he’ll be angry with one and he’ll love the other, or he’ll give himself to one and despise the other. Can’t you serve God and riches? Matthew 6:24
Therefore, the words before and after Matthew 6: 22-23 refer to treasure or money; In fact, the former could well sink into the second if he simply left out the intervention in verses 22-23. God in heaven, not money on earth?Why can’t you serve two amos, God and the money?So why does Jesus connect these two words about money and God with a phrase about the good eye and the evil eye?
The key is in Matthew 20:15. Jesus had just told the parable of the vineyard labradors, some had agreed to work 12 hours for a denier, some hired at 9 a. m. , others later. Finally, some were hired at 5 p. m. to 6 p. m. at the end of the day, he paid all workers the same amount, a denialist, that is, he was extremely generous to those who worked only an hour, and paid the combined sum for those who worked twelve hours.
Those who worked all day murmured against the owner of the house (Matthew 20:11). They were furious that those who worked so little were paid so much. So you used a phrase about the “bad eye,” which is the same phrase used in Matthew 6:23. He said, “Isn’t it possible for me?to do what I want with what is mine?Or are your eyes bad because I’m good? (Matthew 20:15).
Unfortunately, the latter is a total paraphrase, not a translation. Or are you jealous of my generosity?Or is your eye bad because I’m good???????????????, ??????????????????????????. ????????????????????????????, ?????????????? ho ophthalmos sou pon-ros estin hoti eg’ agathos eimi?) The?evil eye?here is a parallel of the evil eye in Matthew 6:23.
What does the evil eye mean in Matthew 20:15?This refers to an eye that cannot see the beauty of grace; cannot see the flash of generosity; you can’t see an unexpected blessing to others as a precious treasure. it is a blind eye for what is truly beautiful, bright, precious and divine. It’s one of the eyes of the world. He sees money and material rewards as more desirable than a beautiful demonstration of divine generosity, funny and free.
This is exactly what the evil eye means in chapter six of the Sermon on the Mountain, and this gives verses 22-23 that mean a perfect correspondence between a text of the true treasure (vs. 19-21) and the need to choose between mastery. of God and the Dominion of Money (v. 24).
Thus, the flow of thought would develop thus: “Do not accumulate treasures on earth, but accumulate treasures in heaven. “Prove that your heart is fixed on the value that God is to you in Christ. Make sure your eye is good, it’s not bad. In other words, be sure to consider heavenly treasure as infinitely more valuable than material treasure, when the eye sees things this way, you fill with light, and if you don’t see it that way, even the light you think you already see (the glow, flesh, skin, and muscles of the world) is all dark. You’re a sleepwalker in life. You serve money as a slave, even without knowing it, because he put you to sleep, it is better to let yourself be influenced by the truth, the infinite value of God.
Therefore, if you are emotionally attracted to material things rather than Christ, pray that God will give you a good eye and wake you from the blindness of “evil eye”.