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-# Connecting Statement:
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-Jesus continues to use a little child to teach the disciples and warns against the terrible consequences of causing children to sin.
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 # to the world
 
-Here "world" refers to people. Alternate translation: "to the people of the world" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
+"to the people of the world" 
 
 # stumbling blocks ... those stumbling blocks come ... the person through whom those stumbling blocks come
 
-Here "stumbling" is a metaphor for sin. Alternate translation: "things that cause people to sin ... things come that cause people to sin ... any person who causes others to sin" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
+"things that cause people to sin ... things come that cause people to sin ... any person who causes others to sin"