<P> Apart from skandalon the idiom of "stumbling block" has a second synonym in the Greek term proskomma "stumbling ." Both words are used together in 1 Peter 2: 8; this is a "stone of stumbling" (lithos proskommatos λίθος προσκόμματος) and a "rock of offense" (petra skandalou πέτρα σκανδάλου). The antonymous adjective aproskopos (ἀπρόσκοπος), "without causing anyone to stumble," also occurs three times in the New Testament . </P> <P> The Leviticus warning is developed in rabbinical Judaism as lifnei iver "before the blind ." </P> <P> "Scandal" is discussed by Thomas Aquinas in the Summa Theologica . In the 1992 Catechism of the Catholic Church, it is discussed under the fifth commandment (Thou shalt not kill) section "Respect for the Dignity of Persons". </P> <P> Active scandal is performed by a person; passive scandal is the reaction of a person to active scandal ("scandal given" or in Latin scandalum datum), or to acts which, because of the viewer's ignorance, weakness, or malice, are regarded as scandalous ("scandal received" or in Latin scandalum acceptum). </P>

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