And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling-block, and a recompense to them:

Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling-block, or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.

Why? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling-stone;

As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone, and rock of offense: and whoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? By no means: but rather through their fall salvation is come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.