Bible Dictionary: Rocks: Christ As a Stumbling Stone to the Wicked

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Isaiah 8:14
And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
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Romans 9:33
As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling stone and rock of offense: and whoever believes on him shall not be ashamed.
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1 Peter 2:8
And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
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Library

The Life of Christ.
... a beacon to the Church, and a stumbling-block to ... temple was rent in twain," and the
rocks were cleft ... no fact connected with the life of Christ better attested ...
//christianbookshelf.org/killen/the ancient church/chapter ii the life of.htm

On the Words, Crucified and Buried.
... for a little time within a stone"I who am a stone of stumbling to the ... itself to this
day, and displays even yet how because of Christ the rocks were then ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/lecture xiii on the words.htm

Christ a Complete Saviour:
... avarice, fleshly lusts, heartlessness to good, wicked desires, low thoughts ... To these
Christ's person and undertaking were a stumbling stone; for at ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/christ a complete saviour .htm

Letter clxiv. (AD 414. )
... by which at the moment of His death the rocks were rent ... to be both to unbelievers
a stone of stumbling, and to ... with the fact that at that time Christ had not ...
/.../augustine/the confessions and letters of st/letter clxiv a d 414.htm

How to Discern Our Title to the Saints' Rest.
... say, "I will venture it among the rocks, and waves ... idols in his heart, and putteth
the stumbling-block of ... Peace and comfort are Christ's great encouragements to ...
/.../baxter/the saints everlasting rest/chapter viii how to discern.htm

The Heinous Sin of Profane Cursing and Swearing
... precepts, who, instead of gaining proselytes to Christ from the ... These cannot but
be sad stumbling-blocks and offenses in ... but it will be for "the rocks to fall ...
/.../whitefield/selected sermons of george whitefield/the heinous sin of profane.htm

Concerning the Unity of God . On the Article, I Believe in one God ...
... you all, guarding you from falling or stumbling, stablished in the Faith, in Christ
Jesus our Lord ... are found in chambers excavated in the rocks at Lycopolis ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/lecture vi concerning the unity.htm

The Beginning, Increase, and End of the Divine Life
... Where others are shaking mountains, I am stumbling over mole-hills. ... Than solid rocks
when billows roar.". ... He has said, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and be ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 6 1860/the beginning increase and end.htm

The Sibylline Oracles.
... When from the cloven rocks of Italy ... He calls Christ (ver.345) "the fair stone," against
which the people of ... a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence;" and the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/deane/pseudepigrapha/the sibylline oracles.htm

The Bible
... the road is no longer paved with the stumbling stones of ... path, a hammer for breaking
the flinty rocks by the ... mortal shores (if our Lord Jesus Christ should not ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/haldeman/christ christianity and the bible/the bible.htm

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