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If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.
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Radical Surgery for Sin
Jesus uses extreme, metaphorical language ('pluck it out') to show the urgency and seriousness of dealing with sin. Commentators stress that anything in our lives—a habit, a relationship, or even an intellectual pursuit—that causes us to stumble must be decisively removed, no matter the perceived cost.
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Matthew
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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…
Baptist
Here our Lord repeats a passage from the Sermon on the Mount. (Matthew 5:29–30.) Why should He not? Great lessons need to be often taug…
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…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
(See Gill on Matthew 18:8).
Presbyterian
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…
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