Teks -- Mark 9:42 (NET)

9:42 “If anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a huge millstone tied around his neck and to be thrown into the sea.

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Vincent: Mar 9:42 - Millstone

Millstone

Rev., great millstone. See on Mat 18:6. Wyc., millstone of asses. Note the graphic present and perfect tenses; the millstone is hanged, and he hath been cast.

Wesley: Mar 9:42

On the contrary, whosoever shall offend the very least Christian. Mat 18:6; Luk 17:1.

JFB: Mar 9:42 - For whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me

Or, shall cause them to stumble; referring probably to the effect which such unsavory disputes as they had held would have upon the inquiring and hopeful who came in contact with them, leading to the belief that after all they were no better than others.

JFB: Mar 9:42 - it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck

The word here is simply "millstone," without expressing of which kind. But in Mat 18:6 it is the "ass-turned" kind, far heavier than the small hand-mill turned by female slaves, as in Luk 17:35. It is of course the same which is meant here.

JFB: Mar 9:42 - and he were cast into the sea

Meaning, that if by such a death that stumbling were prevented, and so its eternal consequences averted, it would be a happy thing for them. Here follows a striking verse in Mat 18:7, "Woe unto the world because of offences!" (There will be stumblings and falls and loss of souls enough from the world's treatment of disciples, without any addition from you: dreadful will be its doom in consequence; see that ye share not in it). "For it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!" (The struggle between light and darkness will inevitably cause stumblings, but not less guilty is he who wilfully makes any to stumble).

TSK: Mar 9:42 - offend // it

offend : Mat 18:6, Mat 18:10; Luk 17:1, Luk 17:2; Rom 14:13, Rom 15:21, Rom 16:17; 1Co 8:10-13; 1Co 10:32, 1Co 10:33; 2Co 6:3; Phi 1:10; 1Ti 5:14; 2Pe 2:2

it : Mat 25:45, Mat 25:46; Act 9:4, Act 26:11-14; 2Th 1:6-9; Rev 6:9, Rev 6:10, Rev 16:6, Rev 16:7

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Gill: Mar 9:42 - And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me // it is better for him that a mill stone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea

And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me,.... Whosoever shall do the, least injury to the meanest person that believes in Christ, who are mean both in their own eyes, and the eyes of others; for Christ is not speaking of little children in age, who are neither capable of believing in Christ, nor are they ready to take offence; but of such as belong to him; his disciples and followers, of whom he is speaking in the preceding verse:

it is better for him that a mill stone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea; and drowned there: the allusion is to the drowning of malefactors, by tying a stone, or any heavy thing about their necks, and casting them into the sea. Casaubon, and others, have shown out of Heathen writers, that this has been a practice of some nations, particularly the Grecians: Jerom says, Christ speaks according to the custom of the country; this being a punishment of the greatest crimes among the Jews; but I have no where met with it in their writings: Christ's sense is, that such who give offence to any of his ministers or people, how mean soever they may appear, shall undergo the severest punishment; See Gill on Mat 18:6.