This can be important for determining whether the visual pathways for each eye are working properly. In addition, eye doctors will examine your pupils’ responses to light prior to dilation. One of the first parts of a comprehensive eye exam is a test of your vision, and perhaps a measurement to determine an eyeglass prescription, both of which require that your eyes remain undilated. Seeing the optic nerve is a crucial part of a comprehensive eye examination.īoth dilated and undilated eye exams provide important information to an eye doctor. The eye is a beautiful organ, and it is the only place in the human body where a doctor can see a part of the central nervous system, the optic nerve. During an eye exam, a doctor will administer eye drops to increase the size of a patient’s pupils. Under normal circumstances, pupils can dilate to let in more light or in response to a variety of stimuli. Pupil dilation occurs when the opening in the center of your iris grows bigger to let in more light. The exam is critical to preventing and treating eye conditions that could potentially lead to vision loss. After all the bible is just a series of stories if we don’t act on what we learn.Pupil dilation is performed to purposefully increase the size of the pupils during an eye exam so that the eye doctor can fully examine the health of the optic nerve and retina. Let’s pray about how we are to incorporate this teaching of Jesus into our daily lives. So I need to stay prayerful, and remain connected with God in order to avoid the natural tendency to react angrily. I don’t know about you, but for me it takes a lot of prayer and strength to ‘offer no resistance.” My natural reaction to hurtful incidents is to become angry and retaliate. It’s usually in the course of everyday living, with good people who are close to me, that I suffer some kind of hurt. When I’m hurt by someone, they’re typically not evil people. He says, “…offer no resistance to one who is evil…” Jesus teaches that we should step beyond our rights….in Love. Once again Jesus is challenging us to refrain from retaliation when we are wronged. The footnote in the New American Bible reads, “Jesus forbids even this proportionate retaliation.” In other words, the punishment should not exceed the injury done.īut Jesus, who ‘came not to abolish the law, but to fulfill it,” (Matthew 5:17) challenges the notion of any type of retaliation at all. If someone caused you to lose your left eye, you could remove their left eye, but not the right, and not both eyes. If someone caused you to lose one tooth, you had the right to take away one tooth from them, but not two. This law gave people the right to retaliate, but prevented them from inflicting excessive injury on someone as they retaliated. This law seems harsh, but it was actually designed to moderate vengeance. The same injury that one gives another shall be inflicted in return.” Known as ‘lex talionis’ or ‘the law of tit for tat,’ this law can be found in the Old Testament book of Leviticus 24:19 & 20 “Anyone who inflicts a permanent injury on his or her neighbor shall receive the same in return fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. In Matthew 5:38-39, Jesus said, “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, offer no resistance to one who is evil.“ “You’ve heard it said….but I say to you” was a common teaching phrase used by Rabbis to make a point. In last week’s blog post, I mentioned a common teaching method used by itinerant Rabbis in Jesus’ time.
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