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Mark 9:42Mark.9.42

‹And whosoever shall offend one of› [these] ‹little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.›

KJV

Greek original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Mais, si quelqu'un scandalisait un de ces petits qui croient, il vaudrait mieux pour lui qu'on lui mît au cou une grosse meule de moulin, et qu'on le jetât dans la mer.

KJV

‹And whosoever shall offend one of› [these] ‹little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.›

Patristic reading

2
  • Clemens Romanus (Clement of Rome)

    Epistula I ad Corinthios

    simple form found in L. εἶπεν γάρ: Οὐαὶ Mt. 26. 24 (Mk. 14, 21; Luke 22, 22); Luke 17, 2 (Mt. 18, 6; Mk. 9. 42) τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ ἐκείνῳ: καλὸν ἦν αὐτῷ, εἰ οὐκ ἐγεννήθη, ἦ ἕνα τῶν ἐκλεκτῶν μου σκανδαλίσαι κρεῖττον ἢν αὐτῷ περιτεθῆναι μύλον καὶ καταπον τισθῆναι εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν, ἢ ἕνα τῶ…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 188 (Migne)

    a indulsit, et de eodem servo qui centum denarios conservo suo condonare noluit (Matth. XVIII, 1-35; Marc. IX, 32-49; Luc. IX, 46-48) . Consummatis sermonibus post tributum, de humilitate commendanda et innocentia, de correctione et venia, pius doctor a Galilaea migravit et in…

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