1Cor 8:12 | JFB | STEP | 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 ( ; , ).

‏ 1 Corinthians 8:12

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).