just as it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense. And every man who believes in him will not be shamed.

Why? Because it was not from faith but as from works of law. For they stumbled at the stone of stumbling,

And David says, Let their table become for a snare, and for a trap, and for a stumbling block, and for a retribution to them.

Let us not therefore criticize each other any more, but judge ye this instead, not to place a stumbling block to the brother, or a snare.

Now I beseech you, brothers, watch out for those who make the divisions and the stumbling blocks, contrary to the doctrine that ye learned, and turn away from them.

It is good not to eat meats, nor to drink wine, nor in whatever thy brother stumbles against, or is caused to stumble, or becomes weak.