Verse 31 For the narrative here referred to, see 1 Kings 10:1-13. Luke 11:34-36. As the light of the body is the eye, so the understanding is the light of the soul. When, therefore, the understanding is warped and depraved by wicked prejudices, as it was with these Jews, who had perverted all that Jesus had said, and misrepresented all that he had done, the whole soul is necessarily involved in darkness and error. An eye single represents an understanding free, honest, candid,--willing to see, and to know and admit the truth.