“It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.”
It would be better for them to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around their neck than to cause one of these little ones to stumble — better to be drowned with a millstone: the severity of the warning about causing the little ones (micron, the young in faith, the vulnerable disciples) to stumble. The millstone is the large donkey-powered grinding stone — thrown into the sea attached to the neck is the image of permanent submersion.
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