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 1 Text|    and thou hearest with the eye (?). And (yet) nothing is
 2 Text|      written and reaches the eye, but [the eye] sees something [
 3 Text|    reaches the eye, but [the eye] sees something [of which]
 4 Text|    it. And even an unlearned eye sees a book because it is
 5 Text|   meaning is not seen by the eye, nor tasted by the mouth,
 6 Text|      in the gesture, but the eye [sees] that whereby really
 7 Text|     sight perceives with the eye, voice with the tongue,
 8 Text|      or unhealthiness of the eye itself, and moreover according
 9 Text|        for by much light the eye is dazzled and that object
10 Text|   day. ~But the cause of the eye failing (lit. slipping)
11 Text|     is that the sight of the eye wanders by reason of the
12 Text|    that account it (i.e. the eye) does not see. But if there
13 Text|  them also by night, and the eye which could not see them
14 Text|      the darkness is for the eye as it were a tube and its
15 Text|  other hand, descends to the eye as it were into a pit ?
16 Text|      l. 38.] outside (of the eye) that which he saw by the
17 Text|   light which is within (the eye). Consider again and fix
18 Text|   not concentrated (into the eye) little by little and (so)
19 Text|     conies to its place, the eye cannot see. And again, if
20 Text|     observe that because the eye is distracted by the rays
21 Text|     access. And so would the eye be able to see from afar,
22 Text|     because the sight of his eye is scattered as long as
23 Text|      as long as it (i.e. his eye) is altogether open—the
24 Text|   workman closes half of his eye, that he may concentrate
25 Text|  through it the sight of the eye, and that he may estimate (
26 Text| account they are seen by the eye ; and the sun does not hide
27 Text|     scatter the sight of the eye and it (the eye) cannot
28 Text| sight of the eye and it (the eye) cannot see the stars. For
29 Text|    light visibly towards the eye, and sight goes to meet
30 Text|    are reflected towards the eye), they are thought to belong
31 Text|  upon them the sight (of the eye) which gazes at them wanders.
32 Text|    also (in the case of) the eye and the illuminated object,
33 Text|      is engendered 12 in the eye. ~As therefore heat that
34 Text|   amount of the light of the eye, on this account from afar
35 Text|    account it appears to the eye to be great, though its
36 Text|      Him thou teachest thine eye another (kind of) sight, (
37 Text|      is placed on the (very) eye of the former. And so likewise (
38 Text|    called as masculine, and 'eye' feminine in the same, he
39 Text|       sows perception in the Eye." And lo, he, Bardaisan,
40 Text|       when therefore (?) the eye looks at the moon, does
41 Text|    Greek language 'sun' and 'eye' are both called masculine,
42 Text|   called masculine, when the eye looks at the sun a male