If your right hand offends you — The repetition of the same warning has, in part, the emphasis of iteration, but it also points to a disti…

And if your right eye offends you, pluck it out, and cast it from you: for it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and…

Glossa Ordinaria: Because we ought to avoid not only actual sin but also every occasion for sin, He, after teaching that adult…

The radical treatment of parts of the body that cause one to sin has led some (notoriously the church father Origen) to castrate themselves. But th…

And if your right hand offend you
Or "cause you to offend"; that is, is the means of ensnaring your heart; and of dr…

Victory over the desires of the heart must be accompanied by painful exertions. But it must be done.

You have heard that it was said to them of old: You shall not commit adultery. Above, the Lord fulfilled the Law regardin…