Correction

Humiliating. Simply humiliating. I've probably been misremembering this text for more than a decade. I cited it before as "For it must needs be that divisions and offences come, but woe to him by whom they come!"

I was flat wrong. I just plain didn't remember the text right. My apologies.

I looked it up, and here (in KJV, so you can at least see where I got the *idea* from) is what it says:

Matthew 18:7-9 (KJV)
Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh! [8] Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire. [9] And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.

Not even close. If anything, it's more decidedly on one side of the matter than I recalled. MEA CULPA