stumbling stone
Example Sentences
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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
This has been a stumbling stone to many young men.
From The Young Man's Guide by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
Thou stumbling stone, thou barrier 'thwart 650 The gates of endless life!
From Elias An Epic of the Ages by Whitney, Orson F.
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)
For they have stumbled at the stumbling stone.
From The first New Testament printed in English by
