SEV Biblia, Chapter 6:23
mas si tu ojo fuere malo, todo tu cuerpo ser tenebroso. Así que, si la lumbre que hay en ti son tinieblas, ¡cuntas sern las mismas tinieblas!
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 23. But if thine eye be evil , etc.] If thou art of a sordid disposition, of an avaricious temper, if the sin of covetousness prevails over thee, thy whole body will be full of darkness : thy judgment will be so influenced by that sordid principle, that thou wilt not be able to discern what is agreeable to the law of God, or human reason; what is fitting to be done for thyself, for God, or for thy fellow creatures; all the powers and faculties of thy soul will be enslaved by it, and all be intent upon, and employed in the gratification of it: thy mind will be always sad and sorrowful, harassed and distressed; and thy estate, and condition, will be most miserable and uncomfortable: if therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness ! as it is in the body, so it is with the mind; as when the eye, the light of the body, is put out by any means, all the members of the body are in entire darkness; so when the light of reason in the mind is so far extinguished by any prevailing iniquity, particularly the sin of covetousness, so that it is wholly influenced and governed by it, what irregular actions is it led into! What deeds of darkness does it perform! and what will be the consequence of it, but utter and eternal darkness, if grace prevent not!
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 19-24 - Worldly-mindedness is a common and fatal symptom of hypocrisy, for by no sin can Satan have a surer and faster hold of the soul, under the cloak of a profession of religion. Something the soul will have, whic it looks upon as the best thing; in which it has pleasure an confidence above other things. Christ counsels to make our best thing the joys and glories of the other world, those things not seen whic are eternal, and to place our happiness in them. There are treasures in heaven. It is our wisdom to give all diligence to make our title to eternal life sure through Jesus Christ, and to look on all things her below, as not worthy to be compared with it, and to be content with nothing short of it. It is happiness above and beyond the changes an chances of time, an inheritance incorruptible. The worldly man is wron in his first principle; therefore all his reasonings and action therefrom must be wrong. It is equally to be applied to false religion that which is deemed light is thick darkness. This is an awful, but common case; we should therefore carefully examine our leadin principles by the word of God, with earnest prayer for the teaching of his Spirit. A man may do some service to two masters, but he can devot himself to the service of no more than one. God requires the whol heart, and will not share it with the world. When two masters oppos each other, no man can serve both. He who holds to the world and love it, must despise God; he who loves God, must give up the friendship of the world.
Greek Textus Receptus
εαν 1437 COND δε 1161 CONJ ο 3588 T-NSM οφθαλμος 3788 N-NSM σου 4675 P-2GS πονηρος 4190 A-NSM η 5600 5753 V-PXS-3S ολον 3650 A-NSN το 3588 T-NSN σωμα 4983 N-NSN σου 4675 P-2GS σκοτεινον 4652 A-NSN εσται 2071 5704 V-FXI-3S ει 1487 COND ουν 3767 CONJ το 3588 T-NSN φως 5457 N-NSN το 3588 T-NSN εν 1722 PREP σοι 4671 P-2DS σκοτος 4655 N-NSN εστιν 2076 5748 V-PXI-3S το 3588 T-NSN σκοτος 4655 N-NSN ποσον 4214 Q-NSN
Vincent's NT Word Studies
23. In thee - darkness. Seneca, in one of his letters, tells of an idiot slave in his house, who had suddenly become blind. "Now, incredible as the story seems, it is really true that she is unconscious of her blindness, and consequently begs her attendant to go elsewhere because the house is dark. But you may be sure that this, at which we laugh in her, happens to us all; no one understands that he is a avaricious or covetous. The blind seek for a guide; we wander about without a guide.""Seeing falsely is worse than blindness. A man who is too dim-sighted to discern the road from the ditch, may feel which is which; but if the ditch appears manifestly to him to be the road, and the road to be the ditch, what shall become of him? False seeing is unseeing, on the negative side of blindness" (Ruskin, "Modern Painters").
