Fragment on Matthew
Fragmentum in evangelium Matthaei
The lamp of the body is the eye§1
1The lamp of the body is the eyeIf your eye is single, the whole body is full of light; if evil, the whole body is dark — and if the light in you is darkness, how great is that darkness. A single eye is unfeigned love, by which the body is lit when outer parts match what is thought within; the evil eye is pretended love, also called hypocrisy, through which the whole body is darkened — dark deeds conceived inside, while the outer members put forward words that seem to be light.
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Wolves in sheep’s clothing; cup and dish§2
2They are truly wolves in sheep’s clothing — washing only the outside of cup and dish, not knowing that unless the inside is cleansed the outside cannot be clean.
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If the light in you is darkness§3
3So the Savior exposes them: If the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness — that is, if what seems to you to be love-as-light is, through hidden hypocrisy, a work worthy of darkness…
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What then of open sins§4
4…what of your open, plain transgressions?
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