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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Romans 9:32 - 9:32
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Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were - rather simply, “as”
by the works of the law - as if it were thus attainable, which justification is not: Since, therefore, it is attainable only by faith, they missed it.
for - it is doubtful if this particle was originally in the text.
they stumbled at that stumbling-stone - better, “against the stone of stumbling,” meaning Christ. But in this they only did.