Commentaries:Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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1 Corinthians 8:12
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 (Matthew 25:40; Acts 9:4-5).
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