Galatians 5:11 (WEB)
But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.
Fathers and councils · 2
Tertullian
“…of the passion itself should be figuratively set forth in predictions; and the more incredible (that mystery), the more likely to be “a stumbling-stone,” if it had been nakedly predicted; and the more magnificent, the more to be adumbrated, that the difficulty of its intelligence might seek (help from) the…” — editor's note: See Rom. ix. 32, 33, with Isa. xxviii. 16; 1 Cor. i. 23; Gal. v. 11.
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Ambrose of Milan
“In and after the flesh, therefore, He hung, and for this cause He, Who bore our curses, became a curse.” — editor's note: This it is that has constituted the “offence of the Cross.”—Gal. v. 11; 1 Cor. i. 22.
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