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    "figure_name": "Stumbling-Stone and Rock-of-Offence Imagery",
    "technical_name": "Stumbling-stone, rock-of-offence, offence, snare, and stumblingblock imagery",
    "alternate_names": "stumbling stone imagery; rock of offence imagery; stumblingblock imagery; offence imagery; falling on the stone imagery",
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    "reader_category": "Offence, unbelief, judgment, and divided response / Stumbling-stone imagery",
    "bullinger_class": "Biblical imagery and motif forms",
    "simple_definition": "Stumbling-stone imagery uses a stone, rock, or obstacle to picture the way unbelief takes offence at what God has placed for salvation, warning, or judgment.",
    "technical_definition": "A negative response motif in which a divinely placed stone or obstacle exposes unbelief, becomes the site of offence, and divides those who trust from those who stumble.",
    "source_hint": "Wave 33 draft-normalized stones/metals/clay/jewels imagery review; distinguish this from Cornerstone Imagery by focusing on stumbling, offence, and judgment response.",
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      "reference": "Lev. 19:14",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "put a stumblingblock before the blind",
      "explanation": "The physical image becomes a moral warning against causing the vulnerable to fall.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized stones/metals/clay/jewels imagery review",
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      "figure_name": "Stumbling-Stone and Rock-of-Offence Imagery",
      "page_slug": "stumbling-stone-and-rock-of-offence-imagery",
      "reference": "Isa. 8:14",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "for a stone of stumbling",
      "explanation": "The LORD himself becomes sanctuary to some and offence to unbelief.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "figure_name": "Stumbling-Stone and Rock-of-Offence Imagery",
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      "reference": "Isa. 57:14",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "take up the stumblingblock",
      "explanation": "Removal of the obstacle pictures prepared return and mercy.",
      "certainty": "probable",
      "source": "Draft-normalized stones/metals/clay/jewels imagery review",
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      "reference": "Ezek. 14:3",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the stumblingblock of their iniquity",
      "explanation": "Idolatry is pictured as an internal obstacle that brings judgment.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized stones/metals/clay/jewels imagery review",
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      "figure_name": "Stumbling-Stone and Rock-of-Offence Imagery",
      "page_slug": "stumbling-stone-and-rock-of-offence-imagery",
      "reference": "Matt. 21:44",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "whosoever shall fall on this stone",
      "explanation": "Jesus uses stone-fall imagery for judgment upon rejection.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized stones/metals/clay/jewels imagery review",
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      "figure_name": "Stumbling-Stone and Rock-of-Offence Imagery",
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      "reference": "Luke 20:18",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "upon whomsoever it shall fall",
      "explanation": "The stone image warns that rejection leads to crushing judgment.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Rom. 9:32",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "they stumbled at that stumblingstone",
      "explanation": "Paul uses stumbling imagery to explain Israel’s unbelieving pursuit of righteousness.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Rom. 9:33",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "a stone of stumbling and rock of offence",
      "explanation": "Isaiah texts are combined to present Christ as the decisive offence to unbelief.",
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      "reference": "1 Cor. 1:23",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "unto the Jews a stumblingblock",
      "explanation": "The crucified Christ offends expectation while revealing God’s wisdom.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "1 Pet. 2:8",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence",
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