Chapter 26 — Part III — The Ten Commandments
Section 580. Q. Besides murder of the body, is there not such a thing as spiritual murder? A. A kind of spiritual murder is the causing of offense: when any one causes his neighbor to fall into infidelity or into sin, and so subjects his soul to spiritual death. The Saviour says: Whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. Matt. xviii. 6.