2 Corinthians 11:29

29. The distraction of this care arises from its carrying the apostle’s soul, as it were, out of himself into a sympathy and identification with its various individual objects.

Weak… weak He becomes weak by tender sympathy with the weak, feeling for their infirmities, and trying, with them, to rise into strength. This weakness may consist in want of Christian faith, morality, or firm purpose.

Offended Made by some one to stumble or falter in his Christian course.

Burn not He cannot say I stumble with him, but I burn in shame and sorrow for him. The I in this last clause is, according to the Greek, emphatic. If any one is weak, I am sympathetically weak with him; if any stumble, the man to burn with agony thereat is I.