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There has to be something in it that we are missing. There is the Hebrew parallelism "eyes" becomes "eyelids" but why not gaze or stare or countenance??
It goes back to the Septuagint. I just don't think it is meaningful in English to talk about eyelids testing people. I think the usage (all the way back to the Septuagint) comes from trying to find a parallel for a word that doesn't really have one in other languages.This thread brought out my inner word nerd. I have nothing definitive to say, but did find that the etymology of "lid" includes the idea of "gate (you've probably read the old ways of speaking such as "eye-gate" and "ear-gate."):
Lid: "movable or removable cover for a pot, etc.," mid-13c., from Old English hlid "covering, opening, gate".
The use of "eyelid" goes back to at least the Wycliffe Bible.