Luke 17:2

Syriac Peshitta (NT Only)

ܦ݁ܰܩܳܚ ܗ݈ܘܳܐ ܠܶܗ ܐܶܠܽܘ ܪܰܚܝܳܐ ܕ݁ܰܚܡܳܪܳܐ ܬ݁ܰܠܝܳܐ ܒ݁ܨܰܘܪܶܗ ܘܰܫܕ݂ܶܐ ܒ݁ܝܰܡܳܐ ܐܰܘ ܕ݁ܢܰܟ݂ܫܶܠ ܠܚܰܕ݂ ܡܶܢ ܗܳܠܶܝܢ ܙܥܽܘܪܶܐ ܀

Bible Verse Review
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better: Matthew 18:6, Matthew 26:24, Mark 9:42, 1 Corinthians 9:15, 2 Peter 2:1-3

one: Isaiah 40:11, Zechariah 13:7, Matthew 18:3-5, Matthew 18:10, Matthew 18:14, John 21:15, 1 Corinthians 8:11, 1 Corinthians 8:12, 1 Corinthians 9:22

Reciprocal: Matthew 5:30 - offend Matthew 10:42 - one Matthew 18:5 - receive Romans 14:1 - weak Romans 14:13 - put Romans 14:21 - whereby 1 Corinthians 8:9 - take 1 John 2:10 - occasion of stumbling

Gill's Notes on the Bible

It were better for him that a millstone,....

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

It is impossible - It cannot but happen. Such is the state of things that “it will be.” See these verses explained in the notes at Matthew 18:6-7.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Luke 17:2. A mill-stone — That drowning a person with a stone tied about the neck was an ancient mode of punishment, see proved in the note on Matthew 18:6; Matthew 18:7, to which let the following be added. To have a mill-stone hanged about the neck, was a common proverb. "Samuel saith, A man may marry, and after that addict himself to the study of the law. Rab. Jochanan saith, No: shall he addict himself to the study of the law with a mill-stone about his neck?"

The place in Aristophanes, to which the reader is referred in the note on Matthew 18:6, is the following: -

Αραν μετεωρον εις το βαραθρον εμβαλω,

Εκ του λαρυγγος εκκρεμασας ὑπερβολον

"Lifting him up into the air, I will plunge him into the deep: a great stone being hung about his neck." Aristoph. in Equit. ver. 1359.