...What • Horn. ix. 31, 32. Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness hath not ATTAINED unto the law of righteousness. Wherefore? Because...by the WORKS of the law, for they stumbled at that stumbling stone. t Gal. iii. 21 , 22. Is the law then against the promises of God ? God forbid ! for...

...ness of faith : but Israel, which followed after " the law of righteousness, hath not attained to " the law of righteousness. Wherefore : Because •...law : for they stumbled at that " stumbling-stone." 3 Was any true believer ever excluded from justification because he had not previously done moral works...

...righleousnes* without works, — Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore ? Because they...by the works of the law : for they stumbled at that stumbling-stnne. — Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith...

...&c.— Rom, ii.17— 23. 28. Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness: wherefore? because they...by the works of the law ; for they stumbled at that stumbling stone, &c. — Rom. ix. 3 1 , 32. They have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge...

...&c. — Rom. \ iii. 3. Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore? because they...by the works of the law : for they stumbled at that stumbling stone. — Rom. ix. 31, 32. Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that...

...have these words : "But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore? Because they...by the works of the law : for they stumbled at that stumbling stone," meaning the law. And thus the law appears to have been one stumbling stone; which...

...ABIDETH ON HIM. — Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not att&ined 'to the lav of righteousness. Wherefore ? Because they sought...the law : for they stumbled at that stumbling-stone. It is remarkable, that, in drawing a conclusion from the doctrine of absolute sovereignty, in which...

...words, as not being righteous persons ; which the Gentiles, who submitted to the gospel, were. And wherefore ? Because they sought it not by faith, but...law ? For they stumbled at that stumbling-stone.* Yet Paul, in the same chapter, and in the most solemn manner, declared, that he had great heaviness,...

...Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. 32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but...the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling-stone ; 33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone, and rock of offence : and whosoever...

...words, as not being righteous persons ; which the Gentiles, who submitted to the gospel, were. And wherefore ? Because they sought it not by faith, but...law ? For they stumbled at that stumbling-stone.* Yet Paul, in the same chapter, and in the most solemn manner, declared, that he had great heaviness,...