It is his eye, he says, that has so affected his heart.

The Prophet of the Captivity had all the _Holy War_ potentially in his imagination when he penned that so suggestive sentence.

And the Latin poet of experience, the grown-up man's own poet, says somewhere that the things that enter by his eye seize and hold his heart much more swiftly and much more surely than those things that but enter by his ear.

I shall continue, then, to hold by my text, 'Mine eye affecteth mine heart.' 1.

Turning then, to the prophets and proverb-makers of Israel, and then to the New Testament for the true teaching on the eye, I come, in the first place, on that so pungent saying of Solomon that 'the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.' Look at that born fool, says Solomon, who has his eyes and his heart committed to him to keep.