skándalon
– properly, the trigger of a trap (the mechanism closing a trap down on the unsuspecting victim); (figuratively) an offense, putting a negative cause-and-effect relationship into motion.
4625 /skándalon ("the means of stumbling") stresses the method (means) of entrapment, i.e. how someone is caught by their own devices (like their personal bias, carnal thinking).
Lyrics from the Song SCANDELON by Michael Card
"Along the path of life, there lied the stubborn scandalon
And all who come this way must be offended
To some He is a barrier, to others He's the way
For all should know, the scandal of believing
He will be the truth that will offend them one and all
A stone that makes men stumble
and a rock that makes them fall
And many will be broken so that He can make them whole
And many will be crushed and lose their own soul...."
σκάνδαλον, σκανδάλου, τό, a purely Biblical ((occurring some twenty-five times in the Greek O. T., and fifteen, quotations included, in the New)) and ecclesiastical word for σκανδάληθρον, which occurs occasionally in native Greek writings; the Sept. for מוקֵשׁ (a noose, a snare) and מִכְשׁול;
But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, G4625 and unto the Greeks foolishness; 1 Corinthians 1:23
As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: G4625 and whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed. Romans 9:33."
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