Patristic
“Or else, It is better for thee to enter into life maimed, that is, without the chief place, for which you have wished, than having two hands to go into eternal fire. The two hands for high station are humility and pride; cut off pride, keeping to the estate of lowliness.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Mark, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 9:43-50
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1842) ↗