Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
In verses Matthew 18:8 and Matthew 18:9 we have one of the dualities or doublets in Matthew (Matthew 5:29-30). Jesus repeated his pungent sayings many times. Instead of eiv geennan (Matthew 5:29) we have eiv to pur to aiwnion and at the end of verse Matthew 18:9 tou purov is added to thn geennan. This is the first use in Matthew of aiwniov. We have it again in Matthew 19:16, Matthew 19:29 with zoh, in Matthew 25:41 with pur, in Matthew 25:46 with kolasin and zohn. The word means ageless, without beginning or end as of God (Romans 16:26), without beginning as in Romans 16:25, without end as here and often. The effort to make it mean "aeonian" fire will make it mean "aeonian" life also. If the punishment is limited, ipso facto the life is shortened. In verse Matthew 18:9 also monofqalmon occurs. It is an Ionic compound in Herodotus that is condemned by the Atticists, but it is revived in the vernacular Koin‚. Literally one-eyed. Here only and Mark 9:47 in the New Testament.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Matthew 18:8:
Matthew 18:8
Mark 9:43
Mark 9:47
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