are in the singular, those which are mentioned in ver. 19, 20 (antecedentia), with which this verse is connected, are in the plural number. The plural therefore must stand in this verse. The singular, " thesaurus tuus" " thy treasure" easily crept into the Latin Vulgate, and was convenient to the Greeks for ascetic
discourses. The treasure which YOU collect is called in Luke xii. 34 o 0r,ffctvpb$ V/AUV, YOUR treasure. — sffrai, will be) sc. in heaven or in earth respectively.
22. 'O opdahfMc, the eye) This is the subject of the proposition.1 — lav ouv, if therefore) The particle o3v (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.2 We will not linger on such matters. — a-TAoDj, single, simple) The word simplicity never occurs in the sacred writings in a bad sense. acrXoDj signifies here simple and good, singly intent on heaven, on God. Here is an antithesis between acrXofc, single, in this verse, and dual, two, in ver. 24. That which is propounded figuratively in ver. 22, 23, is declared in plain words in the fol lowing verses. — pureivbv, full of light) As if it were all eye.
23. Hovqpos, evil) sc. shifting, double, inconsistent, imbued with self-love. — TO <pZ>s, the light) which the lamp should give. — ri (SMTog, the darkness) How great darkness must be the darkness of the whole body ! 3 — coVov, how great) As great as the body.
Cypr. 239, 303. The change to Sing, from Plur. ver. 20, is perhaps to im ply that the heart of each individually is to be given to God. — ED.
Such is the reading supported by Bengel in his German Version, where he writes, " Denn wo dein Schatz ist, da wird auchdein Herz seyn." "For where THY treasure is, there will THY heart be also." He explains dein Schatz (thy treasure) by " Thy possession (dein Gut), on which thy Anxiety is set night and day." In his App. Crit. he supports the reading of the Re ceived Text, and speaks of aw as having crept in from the next verse. — (I. B.)
1 Not as in E. V. " THE LIGHT of the body is the eye" but " THE EYE is the light of the body.'' — ED.
2 i.e. Those who omitted the word actually when copying in the text must have supplied it mentally when reading it. — (I. B.)
Ovv is the reading of B ; b has enim ; ac Hil. 520 omit it. — ED.
3 In the original the passage runs thus —
" Tenebrw totius corporis, quantse erunt tenebne!" and then proceeds, " Singularis tenebra, veteribus non ignotus, a multis Theologis in loco ad- hibitus, saepius conveniret sirr.plicitati hermeneutica?." — (I. B.)