3030Man,
Thanks for that reply. Your examples and illuminations are interesting and do shed light on how that verse might have been received by it's initial hearers. I don't see how the meaning of the verse is changed by the information you bring, though. I believe most or at least many cultures have shown special attention to the eyes. Even ours. As an example the expression: "the eyes are windows to the soul".
I believe most believers recognize that eyes allowed to go undisciplined by the Spirit can allow sins of lusts of all kinds in to invade our lives. I sure do. It's on my short list.
I appreciate your intent to help make the Scripture fuller or more readily understood but I believe they do that all by themselves. I believe the Scripture has been created as a unique communication from the Almighty that cannot fail for lacks in interpretation or idioms.
Consultations with Greek/Hebrew dictionaries and cultural usages are fun, interesting, and sometimes illuminating but they run the risk of implying the Scripture is not complete on it's own. It is. I have never seen a time when I dug into such endeavors that there resulted any new revelations being discovered that contradicted Scripture. Nor have I heard of anyone else's tenant changing discoveries.
That could not always be said of doctrines of men, however. Big difference.
The truth is that many people have enormous trouble understanding and applying or maybe believing the scripture we have without the confusion of understanding how others might come to understand it. Understand? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />. So that makes many believe their must be more.
We submit to endless study and pursuits so much more readily than we submit to God. That's when the understanding begins.
Families home. Gotta run!
Rick
