Proverbs 4:25

Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

Ver. 25. Let thine eyes look right on.] E regione, vel in rectum. Let them be fixed upon right objects. Get that stoic eye of our Saviour; get a patriarch's eye; be well skilled in Moses's optics; Heb 11:27 have oculum in metam, which was Ludovicus Vives's motto. Do as mariners that have their eye on the star, their hand on the stern. A man may not look intently upon that which he may not love. The disciples were set agog by beholding the beauty of the temple. Mat 24:2 If therefore thine eye offend thee, or cause thee to offend, pull it out of the old Adam, and set it in the new man. If thou use it not well, thou wilt wish that thou hadst pulled it out indeed, as Democritus did.