Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on 1 Corinthians 8:12
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1 Corinthians8:12
12. wound their weak conscience--literally, "smite their conscience, being (as yet) in a weak state." It aggravates the cruelty of the act that it is committed on the weak, just as if one were to strike an invalid.
against Christ--on account of the sympathy between Christ and His members (Mt 25:40; Ac 9:4, 5).
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