{"id":3662,"date":"2008-06-18T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/06\/quote-of-the-day-not-st-matthew-18\/"},"modified":"2008-06-18T13:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T13:16:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-not-st-matthew-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/06\/quote-of-the-day-not-st-matthew-18.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day (Not St. Matthew 18)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#660000\">\u201cWoe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh! Wherefore if thy neighbor\u2019s hand or his foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them away; and if thy neighbor\u2019s eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it away\u201d<\/span> (<a href=\"http:\/\/jintoku.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/wdjd-1-what-didnt-jesus-do.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Not St Matthew 18<\/a>).<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-1452368194240762418?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWoe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh! 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