Luke 17:1

Luke 17:1-4. The Peril of causing Men to Stumble.

1. It is impossible i.e. in the present condition of the world it is morally impossible.

offences See on Luke 7:23. While the world remains what it is, some will always set snares and stumblingblocks in the path of their brethren, and some will always fall over them, and some will make them for themselves (1 Corinthians 11:19; 1 Peter 2:8).

woe unto him, through whom they come No moral necessity, no predestined certainty, removes the responsibility for individual guilt.