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If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire,
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Radical Surgery for Sin
Commentators stress that Jesus' command to 'pluck out your eye' is not literal but a powerful metaphor for dealing radically with sin. As Charles Spurgeon notes, Jesus doesn't say to merely cover the eye, but to remove it. This illustrates that we must take severe, decisive action to eliminate anything that causes us to stumble, even if it's as precious to us as an eye.
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With one eye (μονοφθαλμον). Literally one-eyed. See also Mt 18:9. Vernacular Koine and condemned by the Atticists. See Mt 1…
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
And if your eye offends you, pluck it out:
Notice how severe our Savior is, how deep he goes. He does not say, "Shut it, cover it u…
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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 thine eye offend thee, pluck it out Than which, nothing is dearer to man, it being very tender, and exceeding…
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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