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Mark 9 : 45

EN If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna, into the fire that will never be quenched—

ES Y si tu pie te fuere ocasión de caer, córtalo: mejor te es entrar á la vida cojo, que teniendo dos pies ser echado en la Gehenna, al fuego que no puede ser apagado;

ZH-HANS 倘若你一只脚叫你跌倒,就把它砍下来;

ZH-HANT 倘若你一隻腳叫你跌倒,就把它 砍下來;

Mark 9:44
Mark :
Mark 9:46

Critical apparatus

9 variants · 3 witnesses
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construction All three attest
Greek NT ὁ πούς σου
Peshitta ܪܓܠܟ
Vulgate pes tuus

Greek articulates the noun (ὁ πούς σου) and uses an enclitic genitive pronoun; Latin renders pes tuus without article (Latin lacks one); Syriac fuses noun and possessive into a single suffixed form ܪܓܠܟ ('your foot'), so three Greek tokens collapse to one Syriac token.

𝔊 grk ℙ syr 𝔙 vul
construction All three attest
Greek NT σκανδαλίζῃ
Peshitta ܡܟܫܠܐ
Vulgate scandalizat

All three convey 'causes to stumble' (σκανδαλίζῃ / ܡܟܫܠܐ / scandalizat); the Syriac participle ܡܟܫܠܐ derives from the Semitic root k-sh-l ('to stumble'), whereas Greek and Latin both employ the borrowed σκανδαλ- stem, reflecting the underlying Semitic idiom directly rather than via loanword.

𝔊 grk ℙ syr 𝔙 vul
construction All three attest
Greek NT ἀπόκοψον
Peshitta ܦܣܘܩܝܗ
Vulgate amputa

Greek ἀπόκοψον and Latin amputa are bare imperatives; the Syriac ܦܣܘܩܝܗ ('cut it off') incorporates the object suffix into the verb, anticipating the pronoun that Greek and Latin express separately.

𝔊 grk ℙ syr 𝔙 vul
construction Two witnesses
Greek NT αὐτόν·
Vulgate illum bonum

Greek αὐτόν is an independent accusative pronoun closed by a high point; Latin renders illum plus the colon; in Syriac the object is already incorporated as the suffix on ܦܣܘܩܝܗ, so no separate pronoun token exists.

𝔊 grk ℙ syr 𝔙 vul
construction All three attest
Greek NT εἰσελθεῖν
Peshitta ܕܬܥܘܠ
Vulgate in

Greek uses the articular infinitive εἰσελθεῖν and Latin the bare infinitive introire, whereas Syriac employs a finite subordinate clause ܕܬܥܘܠ ('that you should enter'), a typical Syriac substitution of a d-relative finite construction for a Greek infinitive.

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construction All three attest
Greek NT εἰς τὴν ζωὴν
Peshitta ܠܚܝܐ
Vulgate vitam æternam quam

Greek εἰς τὴν ζωήν and Latin in vitam æternam ('into eternal life') both use a preposition; Syriac ܠܚܝܐ fuses the directional lamadh with the noun. Note the Vulgate's expansion æternam, which has no counterpart in the Greek or Syriac and likely harmonises toward the fuller 'eternal life' phrasing common elsewhere (cf. Matt 18:8).

𝔊 grk ℙ syr 𝔙 vul
construction All three attest
Greek NT τοὺς δύο πόδας ἔχοντα
Peshitta ܟܕ ܐܝܬ ܠܟ ܬܪܬܝܢ ܪܓܠܝܢ
Vulgate pedes habentem mitti

Greek 'having (ἔχοντα) the two feet' and Latin duos pedes habentem both use a participle of possession; Syriac restructures with the existential idiom ܟܕ ܐܝܬ ܠܟ ('while there is to you') plus the numeral and dual noun, the standard Semitic periphrasis for possession rather than a verb 'to have.'

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construction All three attest
Greek NT βληθῆναι
Peshitta ܬܦܠ
Vulgate in

Greek and Latin use passive infinitives (βληθῆναι / mitti, 'to be cast'); Syriac ܬܦܠ is an active/intransitive finite verb ('that you fall'), shifting the patient into an agent and matching the d-clause construction used earlier for 'enter.'

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omission Two witnesses
Greek NT εἰς τὸ πῦρ τὸ ἄσβεστον
Vulgate inextinguibilis

The Greek further specifies εἰς τὸ πῦρ τὸ ἄσβεστον ('into the unquenchable fire'), partially mirrored by the Vulgate's compressed genitive ignis inextinguibilis ('of unquenchable fire'). The Peshitta omits this descriptive clause entirely after ܒܓܗܢܐ, a shorter reading characteristic of the Syriac in this triplet of sayings (cf. Mark 9:45).