1 Corinthians 8:12 - Exposition

And wound their weak conscience; rather, and in smiting their conseience which is weak. "What," asks St. Chrysostom, "can be more ruthless than a man who strikes one who is sick?" Was it not a cowardly exercise of liberty to strike the conscience of the defenceless? It is another form of "defiling" ( 1 Corinthians 8:7 ) the conscience, but brings out the cruelty of such conduct. Ye sin against Christ. Because Christ lives and suffers in the persons of the least of his little ones ( Matthew 25:40 , Matthew 25:45 ; Romans 12:5 , etc.).