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and the writers may have changed the word with a view to distinguishing the simple
desire of the blind man from the tender act of the Lord Himself.¶
3.
$
(
$ 1
, 5168) is used of the “eye” of a needle, Mark 10:25 (from
$
, “a hole,”
$
, “to wear away”).¶ Cf.
, “a hole, perforation,” Matt. 19:24
(some texts have
$
, “a hole,” from
$
, “to bore a hole”) and Luke 18:25, as in
the most authentic mss. (some texts have
$
here).¶
EYE (withone)
(
, 3442), “oneeyed, deprived of one eye” (
,
“only,” and No. 1, above), is used in the Lord’s warning in Matt. 18:9; Mark 9:47.¶
EYE-SALVE
$
(
"$
, 2854), primarily a diminutive of
$
, and denoting “a
coarse bread roll” (as in the Sept. of 1 Kings 12: after v. 24, lines 30, 32, 39; Eng.
version, 14:3 ¶), hence an “eye-salve,” shaped like a roll, Rev. 3:18, of the true
knowledge of one’s condition and of the claims of Christ. The word is doubtless an
allusion to the Phrygian powder used by oculists in the famous medical school at
Laodicea (Ramsay,
)
0
7
8
, Vol. 1, p. 52).
EYE-SERVICE
$
(
A
&
, 3787) denotes “service performed only under
the master’s eye” (
, “an eye,”
$
, “a slave”), diligently performed when
he is looking, but neglected in his absence, Eph. 6:6 and Col. 3:22.¶
EYEWITNESS
1.
$
(
'
, 845) signifies “seeing with one’s own eyes” (
$
, “self,”
and a form,
, “to see”), Luke 1:2.¶
2.
(
#
, 2030), primarily “an overseer” ( , “over”), then, a “spectator,
an eyewitness” of anything, is used in 2 Pet. 1:16 of those who were present at the
transfiguration of Christ. Among the Greeks the word was used of those who had attained
to the third grade, the highest, of the Eleusinian mysteries, a religious cult at Eleusis, with
its worship, rites, festival and pilgrimages; this brotherhood was open to all Greeks.¶ In
the Sept., Esth. 5:1, where it is used of God as the Overseer and Preserver of all things.¶
Cf.
$
, “to behold,” 1 Pet. 2:12 and 3:2.¶