Seeing and Hearing

Ὀφθαλμοὶ Κυρίου ἐπὶ δικαίοις, καὶ ὦτα αὐτοῦ εἰς δέησιν αὐτῶν. Ὥσπερ οἱ ἅγιοι σῶμά εἰσι Χριστοῦ καὶ μέλη ἐκ μέρους· καὶ ἔΘετο ὁ Θεὸς ἐν τῇ Ἐκκλησίᾳ τοὺς μὲν ὀφθαλμοὺς, τοὺς δὲ γλώσσας, ἑτέρους τὸν τῶν χειρῶν, καὶ ἄλλους τὸν τῶν ποδῶν ἐπέχοντας λόγον· οὕτω καὶ αἱ ἅγιαι δυνάμεις αἱ πνευματικαὶ καὶ περὶ τὸν οὐράνιον οὖσαι τόπον, αἱ μὲν ὀφθαλμοὶ λέγονται, τῷ τὴν ἐπισκοπὴν ἡμῶν πιστευθῆναι, αἱ δὲ ὦτα, τῷ παραδέχεσθαι ἡμῶν τὰς δεήσεις. Νῦν οὖν τὴν ἐποπτικὴν ἡμῶν δύναμιν, καὶ τὴν τῶν εὐχῶν ἀντιληπτικὴν, ὀφθαλμοὺς εἶπε καὶ ὦτα. Ὀφθαλμοι οὖν Κυρίου ἐπὶ δικαίους, καὶ ὦτα αὐτοῦ εἰς δέησιν αὐτῶν. Ἐπειδὴ πᾶσα πρᾶξις τοῦ δικαίου ἀξία τῆς θεωρίας τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ πᾶν ῥῆμα, τῷ μηδὲν ἀργῶς λέγεσθαι παρὰ τοῦ δικαίου, ἐνεργόν ἐστι καὶ ἔμπρακτον, διὰ τοῦτο ἀεὶ ἐφορᾶσθαι καὶ ἀεὶ εἰσακούεσθαι τὸν δίκαιον ὁ λόγος φησί. Ἅγιος Βασίλειος ὁ Μέγας, Ὁμιλία Ἐις Τους Ψαλμούς, Ψαλμός ΛΓ’

The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous and His ears incline to their prayers. As the holy are the body of Christ and parts of its members, and God places in the church some as eyes and some as tongues and others as hands and others are given the office of the feet, so even it is with the holy and spiritual powers of the heavenly place, some are gathered as eyes to attend to our faithfulness and others are ears to receive our prayers. So then the power which watches over us and which receives our prayers are eyes and ears. Thus the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous and His ears attend to their prayers. Since every worthy deed of the righteous is seen by God and every word which is spoken without baseness by the just is active and effective, and thus this verse tells us that the righteous are always eminent and heard. Saint Basil of Caeserea, Homilies on the Psalms, Psalm 33