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but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness,1 has not attained it.232
Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the "stumbling stone."333
As it is written: "See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame."a4
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