 | 1841 - 430 pages
...pain of "mortifying the deeds of the body," and "crucifying the flesh with its affections and lusts," of "cutting off the right hand, and plucking out the right eye;" what are all these sufferings, which are but for a moment? "I reckon, that they are not worthy to be... | |
 | 1845 - 518 pages
...under the body, and bringing itinto subjection ?" What think ye (according to words already quoted) of" cutting off the right hand, and plucking out the right eye ?" It is all figure, you reply : it is all metaphor. I know it ; and the Indian devotee might be regarded... | |
 | Henry Melvill - Sermons, English - 1853 - 420 pages
...read of taking up the cross, and following Christ; of forsaking all that we may be his disciples ; of cutting off the right hand, and plucking out the right eye, which may offend ; it were not easy to deny, that " if in this life only we have hope in Christ, we... | |
 | Henry Melvill - Sermons, English - 1864 - 406 pages
...read of taking up the cross, and following Christ; of forsaking all that we may be his disciples ; of cutting off the right hand, and plucking out the right eye, which may offend ; it were not easy to deny, that " if in this life only we have hope in Christ, we... | |
 | 1869 - 450 pages
...fit emblem of hell." — Wesley. II. CUTTING OFF THE BIGHT HAND, &C. See v. 29, 30. "The metaphors of cutting off the right hand and [plucking out the right] eye are probably taken from surgery, when a mortified member must be ex•cinded, to save the whole body... | |
 | Charles Maurice Davies - Sermons, English - 1875 - 396 pages
...prejudices, though they have grown with your growth and become a part of self ; that is the meaning of cutting off the right hand and plucking out the right eye. Sacrifice all, everything for truth — everything to gain one onward step, to be so much the nearer... | |
 | Charles Minnigerode - Sermons, American - 1880 - 334 pages
...hiding this, speaks of going, if need be, against father and mother and every earthly tie and advantage, of cutting off the right hand and plucking out the right eye, rather than missing Heaven ; aye, risking life itself, to save the immortal, never-dying soul. It costs... | |
 | Richard William Church - Sermons, English - 1897 - 374 pages
...with pain and tears. We may have to make a heavy sacrifice. This is what Christ means when He talks of cutting off the right hand and plucking out the right eye to save the soul. But when once the resolution is taken, when once the wrong thing, the evil temptation... | |
 | Alexander McConnell, William Revell Moody, Arthur Percy Fitt - Theology - 1901 - 1052 pages
...he who wants a religion of child's play must not seek the companionship of Christ. The Master spake of cutting off the right hand and plucking out the right eye, and the bleeding figure has reference to the severing of relationships and the disentangling of well-established... | |
 | Franklin Cogswell Prindle - Reference - 1906 - 378 pages
...sacred principles of divine truth and human duty, which afforded me an illustration of the meaning of cutting off the right hand and plucking out the right eye. "The act of leaving the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1843 was the most painful I ever performed, and... | |
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Christ; of forsaking all that we may be his disciples ; of cutting off the right hand, and plucking out the right eye, which may offend ; it were not easy to deny, that " if in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. 