But here again, see the She-king, in loc. 愈疏,—"mores [if we have such a verb] the distance."The father＇s act was unkind; if the son responded to it with indifference, that would increase the distance and alienation between them. 是不可矶也,—the three characters 不可矶 are to be taken together. The mother is compared to a rock or stone in a stream, and the sons to the water fretting about it. But the case in the text is one where the children＇s affections should flow on undisturbed.