414. COSFEL ACCORDINO TO CHAP. Xr. cleauseand purifynot only theirworks,but theirthoughts, and the intentionsof the heart. For itfollows,The lightoj P*.119, thebody is the eye. AMBROSE. Either faithis the light,as10a' itiswritten,Thy word, 0 Lord, isa lanternto my feet. For the word of God is our faith. But a lanterncannot shine exceptithas receiveditsqualityfrom something else. Ileuce alsothe powers of our mind and sensesare enlightened,that the pieceof money which had been lostmay be found. Let no one then placefaithunder the law,forthe law isbound by certainlimits,grace isunlimited; the law obscures,grace makes clear. THEOPHYL. Or else,because the Jews, seeing the miracles,accused them out of the maliceof theirheart, thereforeour Lord tellsthem, that,receivingthe light,that is,theirunderstanding,from God, they were so darkened with,envy, as not to recognise His miraclesand mercies. l!utto thisend receivedwe our understanding from God, that we should place itupon a candlestick,thatothersalso who are enteringin may seethe light. The wise man indeed has alreadyentered,but the learneris stillwalking. As if He saidto the Pharisees,You ought to use your understand ing to know the miracles,and declarethem to others,seeing that what you see are the works not of Beelzebub,but the Sou of God. Therefore,keeping up the meaning, He adds, The lightof thebody istheeye. ORIGEN. For He givesthe name of the eye especiallyto our understanding,but the whole soul,although not corporeal,He metaphoricallycalls the body. For the whole soul isenlightenedby the under standing. THEOPHYL. But as if the eye of the body be lightthe body willbe light,but if dark the body willbe dark also, so is it with the understanding in relationto the soul. Hence it follows,If thineeye be single,thy whole body will be fullof light; but if evil,thy whole body willbe full of darkness. ORIGEN. For the understanding from its very beginning desiresonly singleness,containingno dissimula- chrys. tion,or guile,or divisionin itself.CHRYS. If then we have in°Matt.' corruptedthe understanding,which is able to letloosethe passions,we have done violenceto the whole soul, and sailerdreadfuldarkness,being blinded by the perversion of our understanding. Thereforeadds He, Take heed,there