This verse means that if there is something in a person's life that causes the person to sin or sway from the will of God, the person should let it go, even if it seems difficult. The difficulty or the pain in letting go of that sin is what is compared to gouging the eye out and throwing it away. It will be very painful to gouge out your eye. So it is better to let go of that sin which is so pleasing, suffer on earth for a short time and enjoy in heaven eternally than to stay in that sin, enjoy on earth for a short time and burn in hell eternally.
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Taxes in Southern states raised sometimes four times higher in 1867 because Radical Republicans in Congress passed several laws increasing taxes in order to charge the Southern states with the costs of the Civil War. In addition, they enforced property taxes in states that were not collecting them before the Civil War.
The intention of the Radical Republicans was to finance the high cost of Reconstruction directly from the coffers of those whom they considered to be the only ones responsible for the war: the southern states.
This led the conservative Democrats in the south of the country to reject all kinds of subsequent republican policies, putting enormous obstacles to the development of Reconstruction. In fact, the fact of having increased taxes triggered the general malaise that caused Reconstruction to end 10 years later, due to the lack of collaboration from the population of the south.
What sparked the Boxer Rebellion was "proto-nationalist sentiment and opposition to foreign imperialism and associated Christian missionary activity." It was crushed by the Great Powers, which was the United Kingdom, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Japan, France, the United States, Germany and Italy who came in and defeated the Chinese forces.
