stumbling stone

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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)

Thou stumbling stone, thou barrier 'thwart 650     The gates of endless life!

From Elias An Epic of the Ages by Whitney, Orson F.

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

"It is their stumbling stone; the rock of their offense."

From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880 by Walker, Aaron

This has been a stumbling stone to many young men.

From The Young Man's Guide by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)