Matthew 5:29 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 5:29

If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And if thy right eye causeth thee to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell.

KJV

And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

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Commentary

1 voice

Jerome

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (420)

Therefore by the right eye and the right hand we must understand the love of brethren, husbands and wives, parents and kinsfolk; which if we find to hinder our view of the true light, we ought to sever from us. Otherwise; As above He had placed lust in the looking on a woman, so now the thought and sense straying hither and thither He calls 'the eye.' By the right hand and the other parts of the body, He means the initial movements of desire and affection.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Thy right eye - The Hebrews, like others, were accustomed to represent the affections of the mind by the members or parts of the body, Rom 7:23; Rom 6:13. Thus, the bowels denoted compassion; the heart, affection or feeling; the reins, understanding, secret purpose. An evil eye denotes sometimes envy Mat 20:15, and sometimes an evil passion, or sin in general. Mar 7:21-22; “out of the heart proceedeth an evil eye.” In this place, as in 2Pe 2:14, the expression is used to denote strong adulterous passion, unlawful desire, or wicked inclination.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Of course, it is not the eye simply of which our Lord speaks--as if execution were to be done upon the bodily organ--though there have been fanatical ascetics who have both advocated and practiced this, showing a very low apprehension of spiritual things--but the offending eye, or the eye considered as the occasion of sin; and consequently, only the sinful exercise of the organ which is meant.

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Original language & word study

33 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
εἰ	ei	If	G1487 →
δὲ	de	now	G1161 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
ὀφθαλμός	ophthalmos	eye	G3788 →
σου	sou	of you	G4771 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
δεξιὸς	dexios	right	G1188 →
σκανδαλίζει	skandalizei	causes to stumble	G4624 →
σε,	se	you,	G4771 →
ἔξελε	exele	do pluck out	G1807 →
αὐτὸν	auton	it	G846 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
βάλε	bale	do cast [it]	G906 →
ἀπὸ	apo	from	G575 →
σοῦ·	sou	you;	G4771 →
συμφέρει	sumpherei	it is better	G4851 →
γάρ	gar	indeed	G1063 →
σοι	soi	for you	G4771 →
ἵνα	ina	that	G2443 →
ἀπόληται	apolētai	may perish	G622 →
ἓν	hen	one	G1520 →
τῶν	tōn	of the	G3588 →
μελῶν	melōn	members	G3196 →
σου	sou	of you	G4771 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
μὴ	mē	not	G3361 →
ὅλον	holon	all	G3650 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
σῶμά	sōma	body	G4983 →
σου	sou	of you	G4771 →
βληθῇ	blēthēa	may be cast	G906 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
γέενναν.¶	geennan	hell.	G1067 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Colossians 3:5
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
leads to
- Galatians 5:24
  Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Romans 8:13
  For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
- Galatians 5:19–21
  The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
Through
Romans 8:13
For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
leads to
- 1 Peter 2:11
  Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Galatians 6:8
  The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.
- Colossians 3:5–8
  Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
- 1 Corinthians 9:27
  No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
Through
Romans 6:6
We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.
leads to
- Galatians 2:20
  I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved…