The Apple of Your Eye

“My son, keep my words
and store up my commands within you.
Keep my commands and you will live;
guard my teachings

as the apple of your eye.”

-Proverbs 7: 1,2

"To highlight the incomparable preciousness of his teaching
he orders the son to protect it as the apple (pupil) of your eye.
This most delicate and yet most precious

member of the human anatomy

is essential for illumination and guidance

-without it there is only darkness
-and so epitomizes what needs the most diligent protection."

(Bruce Waltke p 368 “The Book of Proverbs” 2004)