And David saith, Let their table become a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling-block, and a recompence unto them.

Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, not to lay a stumbling-block or scandal before a brother.

because they sought it not by faith, but by the works of the law, for they stumbled at that stumbling-stone;

as it is written, "Behold I lay in Sion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence:" and again, "Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed."

Say I then, Have they stumbled, that they should fall irrecoverably? God forbid! but this I say, that by their fall salvation is come to the Gentiles to excite them to emulation.