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If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.
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Radical Surgery for Sin
Commentators are unanimous that Jesus is not commanding literal self-mutilation. Instead, He uses powerful, graphic language to teach a vital lesson: you must take decisive, even painful, action to remove anything in your life that causes you to sin. This could be a relationship, a habit, a career path, or a possession that, however dear, is leading you away from God.
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Matthew
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Verse 8,9. If thy hand, etc. (See the notes on Matthew 5:29-30).
The meaning of all these instances is the same. Temptations to sin…
In verses 8 and 9 we have one of the dualities or doublets in Matthew (5:29-30). Jesus repeated his pungent sayings many times. Instead of εις γεεν…
19th Century
Anglican
If thy hand or thy foot offend thee — (See Notes on Matthew 5:29-30.) The disciples had heard these words before in the S…
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Baptist
It is better for you to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.
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Jesus now abandons denunciation of the world’s causing his disciples to stumble and tells his disciples they may prove to be not only victims but a…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Ver. 8, 9. Therefore if your hand or your foot The same words are repeated here on occasion of offences, as are spok…
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Considering the cunning and malice of Satan, and the weakness and depravity of human hearts, it is inevitable that offences will occur. God permits…
13th Century
Catholic
Above, the Lord showed the glory to come in His transfiguration; here He deals with the route for attaining that glory.
This is divided into…
