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If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
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Verse 29. Whatever is an immediate occasion of sin, however near or dear it may be, must be abandoned ( Menochius.), though it prove as dear to us, or as necessary as a hand, or an eye, and without delay or demur. A.
or, Hell
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