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If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire,
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Radical, Not Literal
Commentators are unanimous that Jesus is not commanding physical self-mutilation. Instead, He uses extreme, figurative language to teach a vital spiritual truth: we must take radical action to remove anything from our lives—be it a relationship, a habit, or a skill—that causes us to sin and jeopardizes our eternal soul.
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Into hell, into the unquenchable fire (εις την γεενναν, εις το πυρ το ασβεστον). Not Hades, but Gehenna. Ασβεστον is alpha privati…
19th Century
Anglican
Whosoever shall offend. See Notes on Matthew 18:6-9. The verbal, or nearly verbal, reproduction of these verses indicates the impr…
Baptist
Anything is better than the loss of your soul. It is better to lose the greatest joy, skill, comfort, honour, that you ever had, than to lose your …
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The main point of these verses is that it is so important to enter into eternal life that radical means must be taken to remove whatever can preven…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And if your hand offend you, cut it off I have observed on (Matthew 5:30) that by the Jewish canons, cut…
Presbyterian
It is repeatedly said of the wicked, Their worm dieth not, as well as, The fire is never quenched. Undoubtedly, remorse of consci…
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