From Nave’s Topical Bible
Eye
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 13Passages listed
- 9Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- ANTHROPOMORPHIC USES OFPsalms 33:18Psalms 33:19Psalms 34:15Psalms 121:3–5Isaiah 1:15Isaiah 3:8Amos 9:8Habakkuk 1:131 Peter 3:12
- For additional anthropomorphic uses of
- See Anthropomorphisms
- FIGURATIVE
- Of evil desire, never satisfiedProverbs 27:20Ecclesiastes 1:81 John 2:16
- The offendingMatthew 5:29
The passages, in Bible order (13)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 13 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Psalms 33:18
Surely the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear Him, on those whose hope is in His loving devotion
Commentary on Psalms 33:181 voice
He who does not trust in his own good deeds or expect to be justified by his works has, as his only hope of salvation, the mercies of God. For, when he considers that the expression "Behold the Lord and his reward" refers to each according to his work, and when he ponders his own evil deeds, he fears the punishment and cowers beneath the threats. There is good hope that gazes steadfastly at the mercies and kindness of God lest it be swallowed up by grief.
Basil of Caesarea· HOMILIES ON THE PSALMS 15:10 (PS 33), 379Patristic
- Psalms 33:19
to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine.
Commentary on Psalms 33:192 voices
These are the two prayers of the most faithful Christian: to be rescued from eternal death at the coming judgment and to spend time here with spiritual nourishment. The Lord rescues the souls of the just from death when he raises them from the power …
Cassiodorus· EXPLANATION OF THE PSALMS 33:19, 585Patristic
To deliver their soul from death,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Psalms 34:15
The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their cry.
Commentary on Psalms 34:151 voice
Then when he says, "The eyes of the Lord are upon the just," he instructs about divine providence. And concerning this he does two things. First, he sets forth divine providence. Second, he shows the effect of divine providence, at "The just cried out." Concerning …
Thomas Aquinas· Exposition on the Psalms of David, 1274Patristic
- Psalms 121:3–5
He will not allow your foot to slip; your Protector will not slumber.
Commentary on Psalms 121:3–51 voice
He wilt not suffer thy foot to be moved,.... This is either an address of the psalmist to his own soul; or to any other good man, his friend and acquaintance, assuring of stability, and of final perseverance in grace to glory.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Proverbs 27:20
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Commentary on Proverbs 27:202 voices
Hell and destruction will not be full, etc. The torments of hell will not be filled, by receiving an end; similarly, the intentions of those who are wise in human matters are insatiable in the desire to sin. And hence they pay the penalties without …
Bede· Commentary on Proverbs, 735Patristic
Hell and destruction are never full,.... The grave, as the word used often signifies; and which may be called "destruction", because bodies laid in it are soon corrupted and destroyed; and though bodies are cast into it and devoured by it, it is ready for more; it is one of the four things which never have enough.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Ecclesiastes 1:8
All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.
Commentary on Ecclesiastes 1:81 voice
Therefore incline to him of whom the psalmist says, "He has not taken his soul in vain." To speak now of the troubles of this life, the person has taken his soul in vain who is constructing the things of the world and building the things of the body. We arise each day to eat and drink; yet no one is filled so that he does not hunger and thirst after a short time. Daily we seek profit, and to greed there is set no limit. "The eye will not be satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing."
Ambrose of Milan· DEATH AS A GOOD 7:28, 397Patristic
- Isaiah 1:15
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
Commentary on Isaiah 1:151 voice
Let those who do nothing right in life and think they are justified by the length of their prayer listen to these words. For the words of the prayer are not useful by themselves but only when they are offered up with earnest intent. Now the Pharisee also seemed to multiply his supplication. But what does the Scripture say? "The Pharisee stood and prayed thus to himself," not to God, for he turned back toward himself, since at all events he was in the sin of arrogance.
Basil of Caesarea· COMMENTARY ON ISAIAH 1:36, 379Patristic
- Isaiah 3:8
For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious presence.
Commentary on Isaiah 3:82 voices
(Verses 8, 9.) For Jerusalem has fallen, and Judah has collapsed: because their tongue and their inventions are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of His majesty. The recognition of their faces testifies against them, and they declare their sin like Sodom, and do not hide it. The Prophet speaks of this, not as many suppose, that he who was the chosen leader spoke.
Jerome· Commentary on Isaiah, 420Patristic
For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen, This is a reason given why the government of them is refused; they were fallen into such a ruinous condition, that there was no probability of recovering them.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Amos 9:8
Surely the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” declares the LORD.
Commentary on Amos 9:82 voices
Are you not like the children of Ethiopia to me, O sons of Israel, says the Lord? Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Cappadocia, and the Syrians from Cyrene? Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth: yet will I not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, says the Lord. LXX: Are you not like the children of Ethiopia to me, O sons of Israel, says the Lord?
Jerome· Commentary on Amos, 420Patristic
Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Habakkuk 1:13
Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the faithless? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?
Commentary on Habakkuk 1:131 voice
(Verse 13, 14.) Your eyes are the world's eyes, so that you may not see evil, and you cannot look upon injustice. Why do you not look upon those who commit wickedness and remain silent as the wicked devour the righteous? And you make men like the fish of the sea, and like the reptile that has no ruler? LXX: The world's eye, so that it may not see evil, and it cannot look upon grief. Why do you look upon those who despise, will you be silent when the wicked devours the righteous?
Jerome· Commentary on Habakkuk, 420Patristic
- Matthew 5:29
If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
Commentary on Matthew 5:291 voice
Therefore by the right eye and the right hand we must understand the love of brethren, husbands and wives, parents and kinsfolk; which if we find to hinder our view of the true light, we ought to sever from us. Otherwise; As above He had placed lust in the looking on a woman, so now the thought and sense straying hither and thither He calls 'the eye.' By the right hand and the other parts of the body, He means the initial movements of desire and affection.
Jerome· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 420Patristic
- 1 Peter 3:12
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
Commentary on 1 Peter 3:121 voice
"For the eyes of the Lord," he says, "are upon the righteous, and His ears on their prayers:" he means the manifold inspection of the Holy Spirit. "The face of the Lord is on them that do evil;" that is, whether judgment, or vengeance, or manifestation.
Clement of Alexandria· From the Latin Translation of Cassiodorus, 215Patristic
- 1 John 2:16
For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.
Commentary on 1 John 2:161 voice
It was still, up to that time, accounted as being in Adam, with its own vicious nature, easily indulging concupiscence after whatever it had seen to be "attractive to the sight," and looking back at the lower things, and checking its itching with fig-leaves.
Tertullian· On Modesty, 220Patristic