But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
Ver. 12. And wound their weak consciences] Gr. τυπτοντες, beat upon it to make it sound heavily, as a shaulm (shawm). a Sin is as a stroke upon the heart,2 Samuel 24:10 .
Ye sin against Christ] Who holds himself highly concerned in the misusages of his servants. It is an idle misprision to sever the sense of an injury done to any of the members, from the head. Joab had slain Abner and Amasa. David appropriates it; "Thou knowest" (saith he to Solomon) "what Joab did to me." The arraignment of mean malefactors runs in the style of wrong to the king's crown and dignity. So here.
a A mediaeval musical instrument of the oboe class, having a double reed enclosed in a globular mouthpiece. ŒD