1 CORINTHIANS 8:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.”
When you sin against them in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. — Offense against the weak is reframed as sin against Christ himself. The wounded syneidēsis (conscience) is Christ's property; injury to the weak believer's moral integrity is injury to Christ. This radicalizes the ethics: one's behavior toward the vulnerable is behavior toward the risen Lord. Paul echoes the language of Matt 25 (whatever you did to the least, you did to me).
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 8:12
“And thus sinning against the brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.” Do you observe how quietly and gradually he has brought their offense up to the very summit of iniquity? And again, he makes mention of the infirmity of the other sort: and so, the very thing which these considered to make for them, that he every where turns round upon their own head. And he said not, “Putting stumbling-blocks in their way,” but, “wounding;” so as by the…
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