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Jesus Warns of Offenses

1 Then He said to the disciples, a“It is impossible that no offenses should come, but bwoe to him through whom they do come!  
2 It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should1 offend one of these little ones.  
3 Take heed to yourselves. aIf your brother sins against you, brebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.  
4 And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day returns1 to you, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.”  
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Luke 17:2

A mill-stone - That drowning a person with a stone tied about the neck was an ancient mode of punishment, see proved in the note on Matthew 18:6, Matthew 18:7 (note), to which let the following be added. To have a mill-stone hanged about the neck, was a common proverb. "Samuel saith, A man may marry, and after that addict himself to the study of the law. Rab. Jochanan saith, No: shall he addict himself to the study of the law with a mill-stone about his neck?" The place in Aristophanes, to which the reader is referred in the note on Matthew 18:6 (note), is the following: -

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"Lifting him up into the air, I will plunge him into the deep: a great stone being hung about his neck."

Aristoph. in Equit. ver. 1359.


 
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