Matthew 5:29 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

thy right eye: i.e. thy choicest possession. Figure of speech Hypocatastasis. App-6.

offend. causeth thee to stumble (morally). Compare Matthew 18:6; 1 Corinthians 1:23.

Matthew 5:29

29 And if thy right eye offendd 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.