And wherefore have they not? Is it because God eternally decreed they should not? There is nothing like this to be met with but agreeable to his argument the apostle gives us this good reason for it, Because they sought it not by faith — Whereby alone it could be attained. But as it were — In effect, if not professsedly, by works. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone — Christ crucified.
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Romans 9:32
32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;