And David saith, "Let their table be for a snare, and for a trap, and for a stumbling-block, and for a recompence unto them:

Let us therefore no more judge one another; but judge this rather, that no one put a stumbling-block or offence before his brother.

And why? Because they sought it not by faith, but as by the works of the law. For they stumbled against that stone of stumbling;

I say then, Have they stumbled so as to fall? God forbid: but by their stumbling salvation is come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence: and every one that believeth in him shall not be confounded."

For if their stumbling is the riches of the world, and their diminution the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?

It is laudable not to eat flesh, or to drink wine, nor to do any thing whereby thy brother is stumbled, or scandalized, or weakened.