Mark 9:43
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:
研读注释
Study Note
The hyperbolic call to cut off a hand or pluck out an eye rather than be cast into Gehenna employs the ancient rhetorical device of 'better than' (tob min) to press the absolute priority of eternal life over temporal well-being. Gehenna (the Valley of Hinnom, south of Jerusalem) had accumulated associations with child sacrifice (2 Kings 23:10), the city's refuse fire, and eschatological judgment, making it the most vivid Jewish image for the place of final punishment. The repeated refrain 'where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched' quotes Isaiah 66:24, the final verse of Isaiah's scroll, consciously invoking the last great vision of universal judgment. Jesus' language does not mandate literal self-mutilation but demands radical severance from whatever occasions persistent sin.
其他译本
And if thy hand cause thee to stumble, cut it off: it is good for thee to enter into life maimed, rather than having thy two hands to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.
`And if thy hand may cause thee to stumble, cut it off; it is better for thee maimed to enter into the life, than having the two hands, to go away to the gehenna, to the fire--the unquenchable--
And if your hand is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off; it is better for you to go into life with one hand than to have two hands and go into hell, into the eternal fire.
交叉参考
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If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, …
Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than …
So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to …
But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:
And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,