And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell. See the notes at Matthew 5:29-30, and Remark 8 on that section. The only difference between the words there and here is, that there they refer to impure inclinations; here, to an ambitious disposition, an irascible or quarrelsome temper, and the like: and the injunction is, to strike at the root of such dispositions and cut off the occasions of them.
Into the fire that never shall be quenched;