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Right eye/Right hand
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29. "If your right eye causes you to commit an offense,
pluck it out and throw it away from you.
For you are better off losing one of your members

and not having your entire body thrown into hell.
30. "And if your right hand causes you to commit an offense,
cut it and throw it away from you,
For you are better off losing one of your members

and not having your entire body thrown into hell.

Perplexing. This cannot be literal because all of us, including the Eastern Christians would be required to pluck out our right eyes and chop off our right hands. This is an idiom. But let's say that Eeshoa is saying "If your right eye/hand offends you, stop doing what you're doing!" If so, then how would you idiomatically "lose one of your members?" And why did he specify which hand/eye is was? Does "right" have some significance here?
???Do not give up, for that is ignorance and not according to the rules of this art... Like the lover, you cannot hope to achieve success without infinite perseverance.???
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Right eye/Right hand - by bar_khela - 03-19-2004, 10:20 PM
Re: Right eye/Right hand - by AUMOT - 12-12-2007, 04:29 PM

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