III. SIMPLE, Simplex, or Simplicity, is Matth. vi. 22. Luke xi. 34. ,סיןSin. Rom. xii. 8. ,ציןTzin.sometimes taken for Liberality. The single or simple Eye, oppos’d to an evil Eye, represent a liberal Disposition, in contradistinction to a covetous one. St. Paul says, He that giveth, let him do it with Simplicity; that is, liberally, and with a chearful Heart.
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