MATTHEW 18:9 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.”
And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire. The eye-plucking teaching applied to the chapter's concern: the eye that causes stumbling must be removed. The hell of fire (Gehenna) is the eschatological judgment destination for those who are not protected by the radical self-surgery the previous verses command.
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