- Having sought to establish the original, literal sense of the text, explore what spiritual senses may exist. At this point it is appropriate to use knowledge of how the text was applied in the New Testament. Since the New Testament is not an exhaustive commentary on the Old, it is also appropriate to consider whether there may be further fulfillments of the text (e.g., additional Christological interpretations). Quoted from the article
Reverse Engineering, back into ignorance, our Catholic understanding of scripture. What always has to be kept in mind, is the desires of the powers at be, to not want to understand the text of what Jesus is Commanding.
In Old Testament, the term to 'cut off' a limb from the body of people, means to put an evil doer to death. Over 70 times in Old Testament, this phrase 'cut off' is used by God to mean, put someone to death. Pope Eugene, and other Church leaders, for almost two millenniums, understood this, and incorporated it into Catholic Church Anathema. Catholic Church Anathema is the Church using their Christ given power to call upon Jesus to bind someone to sin. Someone bound to sin by Jesus' lips, goes to hell, and is thus 'cut off' from the spiritual life of the body of the Church, and goes to hell, lest they get the binding absolved.
The reason God commanded His Church, in Old Testament and Jesus in the New Testament, to put an evil doer to physical or spiritual death, was to protect the body of the Church from having her whole body pulled into hell, by the actions of individual evil doer members.
So, in the past one hundred years or so, physical death Capital Punishment, is now, not in favor with Catholic Church leaders. So, Catholic leaders now have to re-engineer their perfect understanding of God's will on physical and spiritual death, Capital Punishment, back out of the Church's understanding God's will.
Cut-off means put to death .
GEN 9:11 GEN 17:14 EXO 4:25 EXO 12:15 EXO 12:19 EXO 30:33
EXO 30:38 EXO 31:14 LEV 7:20 LEV 7:21 LEV 7:25 LEV 7:27
LEV 17:4 LEV 17:9 LEV 17:10 LEV 18:29 LEV 19:8 LEV 20:5
LEV 20:6 LEV 20:17 LEV 20:18 LEV 22:3 LEV 23:29 NUM 4:18
NUM 9:13 NUM 15:30 NUM 15:31 NUM 19:13 NUM 19:20 JOS 3:13
JOS 4:7 JDG 21:6 1SA 20:15 2SA 14:16 1KI 9:7 1KI 14:10
1KI 14:14 1KI 21:21 1CH 17:8 JOB 24:24 JOB 27:8 PSA 37:34
PSA 37:38 PSA 101:8 PSA 109:13 ISA 9:14 ISA 11:13 ISA 14:22
ISA 18:5 ISA 48:19 ISA 53:8 JER 9:21 JER 48:25 JER 50:16
JER 51:13 LAM 2:3 LAM 3:54 EZE 14:13 EZE 21:4 EZE 25:16
EZE 30:15 EZE 35:7 EZE 37:11 DAN 9:26 NAH 1:12 ZEP 1:3
ZEP 1:4 WIS 18:23
ANATHEMA
In passing this sentence,
the pontiff is vested in amice, stole, and a violet cope, wearing his mitre, and assisted by twelve priests clad in their surplices and holding lighted candles. He takes his seat in front of the altar or in some other suitable place, amid pronounces
the formula of anathema which ends with these words:
Wherefore in the name of God the All-powerful, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, of the Blessed Peter, Prince of the Apostles, and of all the saints, in virtue of the power which has been given us of binding and loosing in Heaven and on earth, we deprive N-- himself and all his accomplices and all his abettors of the Communion of the Body and Blood of our Lord, we separate him from the society of all Christians, we exclude him from the bosom of our Holy Mother the Church in Heaven and on earth, we declare him excommunicated and anathematized and we judge him condemned to eternal fire with Satan and his angels and all the reprobate , so long as he will not burst the fetters of the demon, do penance and satisfy the Church; we deliver him to Satan to mortify his body, that his soul may be saved on the day of judgment."...
...He who dares to despise our decision, let him be stricken with anathema maranatha, i.e. may he be damned at the coming of the Lord, may he have his place with Judas Iscariot, he and his companions.
Quoted from:
New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia - Anathema
Matthew 16:13
Jesus replied,
"Blest are you, Simon son of John! No mere man has revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father. I for my part declare to you, you are 'Rock,' and on this rock I will build my church, and the jaws of death shall not prevail against it. I will entrust to you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you declare bound on earth shall be bound in heaven; whatever you declare loosed on earth shall be loosed in heaven."
Revelation 1:16
A sharp, two-edged sword came out of his mouth, and his face shone like the sun at its brightest. When I caught sight of him I fell down at his feet as though dead, he touched me with his right hand and said:
"There is nothing to fear. I am the First and the Last and the One who lives. Once I was dead but now I live-- forever and ever. I hold the keys of death and the nether world."
In both New Testament and Old Testament, God's people are described as one body. As a surgeon cuts off a cancerous limb to preserve life for the rest of the body so also are we to cut off that portion of the body-of-people who cause the body-of-people physical or spiritual death. Cut-off is God's term for stoning someone or spiritually removing someone from eternal life, through Catholic Church Anathema.
Rather than have the whole body-of-people destroyed, as in Noah's time, now Moses is to cut off that portion of the body-of-people which leads the body-of-Israelites into damnation. Moses is to throw off into death those who bring scandalous conduct to the body-of-Israelite people. Jesus tells Peter to "cut off" and throw into hell that portion of the body which pulls the body toward damnation. A fleshly limb cannot be thrown into hell. Only souls are thrown into hell. If the hand, foot or eye of the body of people is its down fall cut it off and throw it into Gehenna. This is done through Catholic Church Anathema.
Both Jesus and Moses instruct us to cut off that portion of the body of people which causes us harm. Through Jesus and Moses teaching on when to "cut off" we learn when to God wills us to destroy with stones or to destroy with "holding sins bound" to protect the innocent.
Leviticus 20 Penalties for Various Sins.
The LORD said to Moses, "Tell the Israelites: Anyone, whether an Israelite or an alien residing in Israel who gives any of his offspring to Molech shall be put to death. Let his fellow citizens stone him. I myself will turn against such a man and cut him off from the body of his people: for in giving his offspring to Molech, he has defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name."
Matthew 5:29 Occasions of Impurity.
If your right eye is your trouble, gouge it out and throw it away! Better you lose part of your body than to have it all cast into Gehenna. Again if your right hand is your trouble, cut it off and throw it away! Better to lose part of your body than to have it all cast into Gehenna."
Numbers 15:30
"But anyone who sins defiantly, whether he be a native or and alien, insults the LORD, and shall be cut off from among his people. Since he has despised the word of the LORD and has broken his commandment, he must be cut off. He has only himself to blame."
The Sabbath-breaker. While the Israelites were in the desert,
a man was discovered gathering wood on the sabbath day. Those who caught him at it brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole assembly. But they kept him in custody, for there was no clear decision as to what should be done with him.
Then the LORD said to Moses, "This man shall be put to death; let the whole community stone him outside the camp." So the whole community led him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Matthew 18:5
"Whoever welcomes one such child for my sake welcomes me. On the other hand, it would be better for anyone who leads astray one of these little ones who believes in me, to be drown by a millstone around his neck, in the depths of the sea. What terrible things will come on the world through scandal! It is inevitable that scandal should occur. Nonetheless, woe to that man through whom scandal comes! If your hand or foot is your undoing, cut it off and throw it from you! Better to enter life maimed or crippled than be thrown with two hands or feet into endless fire. If your eye is your downfall, gouge it out and cast it from you! Better to enter life with one eye than be thrown with both into fiery Gehenna.
quoted from:
Throwing Stones
