The ἁπλοῦς eye, given the symmetrical structure of the passage, is probably the opposite of the evil eye, namely, a generous eye, as in the cognate adverb ἁπλῶς, “generously,” in Jas 1:5 (cf. Rom 12:8; 2 Cor 8:2; 9:11, 13)—an eye that is not attached to wealth but is ready to part with it. It is easier to understand ἁπλοῦς as a synonym for the expected ἀγαθός, “good,” in the ethical sense argued above, than to understand πονηρός in the physiological sense of “unusual” (as does Guelich, Sermon,