But whoso shall offend] Mark 9:42. Luke 17. 1, 2. one of these little ones] Shall, by wrong or contempt (which oft deters, and turns men aside from profession of pietie, or pious courses) offend such an humbled soul, v. 5. men being most prone to deal so with persons so disposed. it were better for him] Because he shall suffer a worse punishment in hell. that a mill-stone, &c.] Gr. an asse-milstone. Not a light one, such as is turned about by mans hand in a quern; but a great and heavie one, such as asses and other beasts use to drive about in a mill. Or, as some take it, the nether millstone; so called, because it lay unmoved, while the other moved upon it, and is usually the thicker and heavier of of the two. It seems that great malefactours were sometimes so drowned.