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单词 the eye of faith
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the eye of faith (also reason, etc.)
3. Chiefly with of or in the genitive. The eye regarded as an attribute of the heart, the mind, etc., imagined to possess powers of perception corresponding to sight; insight, awareness; recollection. Also the eye of faith (also reason, etc.).mind's eye (also eye of the mind): see mind n.1 19b(a). Cf. also heart n. 5b.
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OE Crist III 1328 Nu we sceolon georne gleawlice þurhseon usse hreþercofan heortan eagum, mnan [read innan] uncyste.
OE tr. Chrodegang of Metz Regula Canonicorum (Corpus Cambr. 191) lxxix. 321 Þæt ge..hebbon æfre ætforan eowres modes eagum and eac eowres lichaman [L. ante mentis et corporis oculos], hwæt we and ge syn.
lOE King Ælfred tr. St. Augustine Soliloquies (Vitell.) (1922) i. 27 Þa cwæð heo: wite þæt erest gewiss þæt ðæt mod byð þære sawle æge.
a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 157 (MED) Þe rihtwise Mon..mid þe eȝene of his horte bihalt in to houene and sicð þe muchele blisse þet he is to ileðed.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 81 Al þet þe eȝe of herte yzyþ.
c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 11 Beholdyng..thynges to cumme..with the yis of his soule.
?c1500 Mary Magdalene (Digby) l. 1124 Þer xall þey se me..with here carnall yye.
1564 R. Fills tr. M. Luther Treat. Medit. Trew & Perfect Consol. i. v. f. 16v The eye of our hart is not pure enough, wherewith wee should see how great the misery and ignomini of man is.
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. iii. 23 Sleepe..sometimes shuts vp sorrowes eye . View more context for this quotation
a1698 F. Sheppard Cal. Reform'd in Duke of Buckingham et al. Misc. Wks. (1704) 234 This it is to want the Eye of Faith.
1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. Mark vi. 6 A Spiritual Eye can discern Beauty in an humbled and abased Saviour.
1750 C. Smart On Eternity of Supreme Being 12 Let reason thro' the eye of faith View Him with fearful love.
1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. ii. vi. 166 To witness facts with the eyes of reason.
1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. 454 To the eyes of the unilluminated heart the region in which Faith lives and moves is a dark cavern.
1958 French Rev. 31 386 Both dramatists tend to see life through the eyes of innocence.
1997 C. Carson Star Factory (1998) 274 Antiquated slo-mo newsreel footage or the eye of memory.
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