Matthew 18:7 Douay-Rheims

Woe to the world because of scandals. For it must needs be that scandals come: but nevertheless woe to that man by whom the scandal cometh.

Origen

c. A.D. 184–253 Patristic

This we may understand not of the material elements of the world; but here the men who are in the world, are called the worlda. But Christ’s disciples are not of this world, whence there cannot be woe to them from offences; for though there be many offences, they do not touch him who is not of this world. But if he be yet of this world in loving the world, and the things in it, as many offences will seize him as those by which he was encompassed in the world. It follows, For it must needs be that offences come.

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A.D. 253 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 18:7-9

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