9029. 'The striker shall be innocent' means being not guilty of evil. This is clear from the meaning of 'being innocent' as not being guilty of evil, for the subject is those people who from a certain spiritual truth look at some factual truth (a spiritual truth being a truth from the Word that forms part of the teachings and belief of the Church, and a factual truth being a truth derived from the literal sense of the Word) and do not see agreement between the two, for whom the spiritual truth is therefore weakened and separated for a time, though they do not reject or banish it - these people being the ones who are said not to be guilty of evil; and from the meaning of 'striking' as weakening, as above in 9025.