When  the  eye  is  single  and  good,  the  whole  body  is  full  of
light ;  when  the  eye  is  evil,  the  whole  body  is  full  of  darkness  ;
that  is,  a  man's  life  is  determined  by  his  affections.  And,  on
the  other  hand,  when  the  whole  body  is  full  of  light,  that  is,
when  the  life  is  good,  luminous  with  the  goodness  of  the  king-
dom of  God,  the  affections  are  necessarily  good,  and  no  desire
for  the  wealth  of  the  world  can  be  cherished.  Now  after  such
teaching  the  precept  appropriately  follows,  '  Sell  that  ye  have
and  give  alms  ;  make  for  yourselves  purses  which  wax  not  old,
a  treasure  in  the  heavens  that  faileth  not,  where  no  thief
draweth  near,  neither  moth  destroyeth.  For  where  your
treasure  is,  there  will  your  heart  be  also '  (Luke  xii.  33,  34  ;
Matt.  vi.  19-21).  And  this  again  is  completed  by  the  saying
concerning  the  two  masters,  the  meaning  of  which  is  that  a
divided  life  is  not  only  dangerous  but  becomes  sooner  or
later  impossible.  The  sequence  surely  authenticates  itself ;
and  the  reader  will  observe  that  our  reconstruction  is  not  at
all  arbitrary,  for  the  order  in  which  Matthew  has  preserved
the  fragments  has  here  been  adopted  and  reproduced,  with
the  single  readjustment  made  necessary  by  his  transference
of  the  second  fragment  to  the  beginning.  We  have  therefore
succeeded  in  crossing  the  chasm  which  Luke's  method  has
left  in  our  way.
