Homilist Psalm 119:18 Open you my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law. Moral blindness is the worst kind of blindness. I. Physical blindness has its COMPENSATIONS. Other faculties and organs generally become so keen and active as to make up for the loss of the eye. The imagination also, as in the case of Milton, Homer, etc., gets power to create sunny worlds. II. Physical blindness is not CRIMINAL. It is a calamity. All blindness arises from one of three causes, the want of the visual faculty, the want of light, or the non-employment of the visual faculty. Man is morally blind not from the first cause, for he has conscience, that is, the eye of the soul; not from the second, for he has a moral revelation outside and inside of him. It is the last; he closes his eyes. III. Physical blindness CONCEALS THE HIDEOUS. To look upon the hideous is painful. The blind man sees them not. But the man who is morally blind has often terrible visions of the most horrible things, his conscience scares and scathes him. (Homilist.) Parallel Verses KJV: Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.WEB: Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law. |
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