Luke 11:34
light: luchnos lookh'-nos from the base of - leukos 3022; a portable lamp or other illuminator (literally or figuratively):--candle, light.
body: soma so'-mah from sozo 4982; the body (as a sound whole), used in a very wide application, literally or figuratively:--bodily, body, slave.
eye: ophthalmos of-thal-mos' from optanomai - optanomai 3700; the eye (literally or figuratively); by implication, vision; figuratively, envy (from the jealous side-glance):--eye, sight.
single: haplous hap-looce' probably from a - a 1 (as a particle of union) and the base of pleko 4120; properly, folded together, i.e. single (figuratively, clear):--single.
evil: poneros pon-ay-ros' from a derivative of ponos 4192; hurtful, i.e. evil (properly, in effect or influence, and thus differing from kakos 2556, which refers rather to essential character, as well as from sapros 4550, which indicates degeneracy from original virtue); figuratively, calamitous; also (passively) ill, i.e. diseased; but especially (morally) culpable, i.e. derelict, vicious, facinorous; neuter (singular) mischief, malice, or (plural) guilt; masculine (singular) the devil, or (plural) sinners:--bad, evil, grievous, harm, lewd, malicious, wicked(-ness). See also poneroteros 4191.
darkness: skoteinos skot-i-nos' - skotos 4655; opaque, i.e. (figuratively) benighted:--dark, full of darkness.
The term used for single is the conundrum that drew us here. It means 'folded together. If we follow the base pleko we find plek'-o a primary word; to twine or braid:--plait.
Vision is one, is folded together, braided into a unity.
Before an infant develops the muscular coordination to move the eyes together, the eyes may move randomly, and the baby may appear intermittently cross-eyed. This is normal for a child under the age of two months. Between two and three months, the infant's eyes begin to move together, and can track a moving object. At around four months, the infant can usually detect and reach for a nearby object. The infant can usually distinguish between objects by six months. Vision improves during the next six months as control of binocular vision develops. In binocular vision, the information transmitted from each eye to the brain along the optic nerve is transformed into a single image. Binocular vision depends on the ability of the eyes to align properly.
Eye and Vision Development
Strabismus is the general term for an eye imbalance, when the eyes don't work well together. The term comes from the Greek work Strabismos, meaning to look askance, or the evil eye.
When your two eyes focus upon a single image you see in stereo. But when the eyes are crossed you possess the evil eye.
Infants however develop stereo vision slowly. In the beginning the eyes are often crossed. Imagine a man and a woman of equal height, standing side by side, facing you. Were this pair actually before you, it would be possible for you to allow your eyes to drift out of focus so that one eye's image of the man overlays the other eye's image of the woman.
The saying is instructing us not to focus, to replace a single eye with eyes. Then we are to replace a hand with a hand, and a foot with a foot. We are to make man and woman a single one.
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Stereoscopic Drawings
