Language Studies

Difficult Sayings

"Pluck out your right eye"
Matthew 5:29-30; 18:8-9; Mark 9:42-48

"And if your hand or your foot causes you to offend, cut them off and throw them from you. It is better for you to enter into life lame or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire. And if your eye offends you, pluck it out and throw 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 hell of fire." (Matthew 18:8-9he adulterer into one who denies the very existence and omniscience of God.
F2: Mishnah, Aboth, 1.5; Babylonian Talmud, Berakhoth, 61a.
F3: One of the satirical seven types of Pharisee in Babylonian Talmud, Sotah, 22b.
F4: See Babylonian Talmud, Shabbath, 111a and Yeb. 75a, 79a, 80b, 94b; Niddah, 47b; B. B. 155b.

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