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If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and cast it from you. For it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
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A Metaphor for Radical Action
Commentators unanimously agree that Jesus is not commanding literal self-mutilation. He uses extreme, figurative language (hyperbole) to teach a vital lesson: we must take sin with absolute seriousness. The call is to take radical, decisive, and even painful action to remove anything from our lives that causes us to sin, because protecting our soul is infinitely more important than any earthly comfort or possession.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Your right eye. The Hebrews, like others, were accustomed to represent the affections of the mind by the members or parts of the body ([Re…
Causeth thee to stumble (σκανδαλιζε σε). This is far better than the Authorized Version "Offend thee." Braid Scots h…
19th Century
Anglican
If thy right eye offend thee — The Greek verb strictly means "to cause another to stumble or fall into a snare," and this…
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Baptist
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…
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…
16th Century
Protestant
If your right eye is a stumbling block to you. It might be thought that, considering the weakness of the flesh and of nature, Christ press…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And if your right eye offend you Or "cause you to offend", to stumble, and fall into sin. Our Lord has no regard her…
Victory over the desires of the heart must be accompanied by painful exertions. But it must be done.
Everything is bestowed to save us from …
13th Century
Catholic
You have heard that it was said to them of old: You shall not commit adultery. Above, the Lord fulfilled the Law regardin…
