(3) Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that (c) offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
(3) A good man cannot help but experience offences, yet he must by no means offer offence.
(c) Obstructions and hindrances which stop the course of good works. The Greek word conveys the sense of things which we stumble at.