Romans 9:32

32. Wherefore? This wherefore really asks what was the solution of the election and rejection of Romans 9:6-19, and the answer furnishes the solution. Reprobation is not antecedent to but consequent upon want of faith.

Works of the law Works unenlivened by the spirit of faith and love, and performed as if the drudgery entitled the performers to heaven. Hence the heart was regenerate and the soul unsaved.

Stumbled An image of mistake and failure. Yet the apostle will avail himself of its gentler meaning to distinguish the failure from a total irrevocable fall, (Romans 11:11.)

That stumbling-stone That famous one described by the prophets.