Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

even as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed."

and, "a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense." For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.