stumbling stone

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Patronage is the stumbling stone here to true political action.

From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count

This Anton thought to be a thing wondrously sound and orthodox, and he saw in the child's word the stumbling stone of our mother Eve.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

They stumbled over the stumbling stone; 9:33 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."

From The World English Bible (WEB): Romans by Anonymous

For they have stumbled at the stumbling stone.

From The first New Testament printed in English by

As it is written: Behold I put in Syon a stumbling stone, and a rock which shall make men fall.

From The first New Testament printed in English by