Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
These little ones (twn mikrwn toutwn). In the same sense as "one such little one" above. The child is the type of believers.
A great millstone (mulov onikov), literally, "a millstone turned by an ass." The upper millstone was turned by an ass (onov). There were no examples of the adjective onikov (turned by an ass) outside the N.T. until the papyri revealed several for loads requiring an ass to carry them, stones requiring an ass to move them, etc. Deissmann (Light from the Ancient East, p. 81) notes it also in papyri examples about the sale of an ass and tax for an ass's burden of goods.
The depth of the sea (tw pelagei thv qalasshv). "The sea of the sea." Pelagov probably from plhsso, to beat, and so the beating, splashing waves of the sea. "Far out into the open sea, a vivid substitute for eiv thn qalassan" (McNeile).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Matthew 18:6:
Matthew 10:41
Mark 9:41
Luke 17:2
Acts 5:30
Acts 27:5
Galatians 3:13
Hebrews 4:13
Revelation 18:21
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