{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-434","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":8,"chapter_to":8,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":12,"verse_to":12},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: It is the very law of Christ that we bear one another's burdens. Moreover, by loving Christ we easily bear the weakness of another, even him whom we do not yet love for the sake of his own good qualities, for we realize that the one whom we love is someone for whom the Lord has died.<br/><i>— QUESTIONS 71</i></p><p><b>Basil of Caesarea</b>: Consequently, either when something is done which is intrinsically evil and scandal results, or if the performance of a licit act and one within our sphere of competence causes scandal to one who is weak in faith or knowledge, then the penalty is clear and unescapable.… \"It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck.\".<br/><i>— CONCERNING BAPTISM 10</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"And thus sinning against the brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.\"</p><p>Do you observe how quietly and gradually he hath brought their offence 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 force of his expression to indicate their cruelty. For what can be more savage than a man who wounds the sick? and yet no wound is so grievous as making a man to stumble. Often, in fact, is this also the cause of death.</p><p>But how do they \"sin against Christ?\" In one way, because He considers the concerns of His servants as His own; in another, because those who are wounded go to make up His Body and that which is part of Him: in a third way, because that work of His which He built up by His own blood, these are destroying for their ambition's sake.<br/><i>— Homily on 1 Corinthians 20</i></p><p><b>Pseudo-Clement</b>: ...on this account we must be \"on our guard that we be to no one a stumbling-block, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor yet to the Church of God; and we must not seek that which is profitable to ourselves only, but that which is for the profit of many, so that they may be saved.\" For this does not profit us, that another stumble because of us. Let us, therefore, be studiously on our guard at all times, that we do not smite our brethren and give them to drink of a disquieting conscience through our being to them a stumbling-block. For \"if for the sake of meat our brother be made sad, or shocked, or made weak, or caused to stumble, we are not walking in the love of God. For the sake of meat thou causest him to perish for whose sake Christ died.\" For, in \"thus sinning against your brethren and wounding their sickly consciences, ye sin against Christ Himself. For, if for the sake of meat my brother is made to stumble,\" let us who are believers say, \"Never will we eat flesh, that we may not make our brother to stumble.\" [1 Corinthians 8:12-13]<br/><i>— Two Epistles on Virginity</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"ff05460cdbcfe95475e51f7a98b68b696fe700840917dc0fe8a61d51077af003","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":434,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"e0fd49533555f44bd425337937e378c9d17b600c6a7ee19c06961fc26a5846d6","translator":null,"work":null}