And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
And if thy hand scandalize thee, cut it of. For a scandal is so pernicious that it harms not only the doer but the sufferer of it. Wherefore, if thou sufferest a scandal from thy hand, cut it off. That Isaiah , if any one, relative or friend, as useful and as dear to thee as thy hand, thy foot, thine eye, scandalize thee, that Isaiah , draw thee into sin, separate such an one from thy company, lest he drag thee with him into Gehenna.
