Gospel Commentary for the Third Sunday of Matthew (St. Theophylact of Ochrid)


Third Sunday of Matthew
The Eye is the Lamp of the Body

Matthew 4:18-23

From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Matthew

By Blessed Theophylact, Archbishop of Ochrid and Bulgaria

22-23. The eye is the lamp of the body: if therefore thine eye be sound, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness.