Abstract
How does the eye serve as ‘the lamp of the body’ in the Sermon on the Mount? A comparison with other ‘eye’ biblical texts and the immediate context of the passage do not provide an unequivocal answer. This article finds clues for its meaning in the literary world of sapiential literature of the Bible and in the Sermon on the Mount. The interpretation derived from such an approach finds support in a comparison of this passage to its parallel in the Gospel of Thomas.
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