For if someone with weak faith sees you—you who have this knowledge—eating in an idol's temple, won't that person be emboldened to eat what was sacrificed to idols? — The scenario: a weak believer observes a strong one eating in an eidōleion (idol's temple, shrine). The weak person, lacking the gnōsis to dismiss the association, may be oikodomiēsetai (encouraged, strengthened) to eat, acting against conscience. This action becomes morally poisonous, not because food is defiled but because the weaker one violates their own moral-spiritual integrity by following suit.

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