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1 | Remove your eye?, cut off your hand? | Matt 5:27 | Emmaus | 89910 | ||
Hyperbole was a rhetorical device of exaggeration used to drive home the point and seriousness of a teaching in Jewish culture. It is not to be taken literally, but is meant to underline the seriousness of a teaching, in this case that it is better to deprive yourself of sinful temporal pleasure than to suffer the loss of eternal life by sin. | ||||||
2 | Remove your eye?, cut off your hand? | Matt 5:27 | Claire B | 89942 | ||
Thanks Claire |
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