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;
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Gennadius of Constantinople
AD 471
Paul calls the Lord Christ a stumbling stone because those who did not accept the new covenant in him stumbled over him and by their unbelief fell from the grace of justification which was given to men through him. .