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I. It is not to be expected that a religion, though truly Divine, should be entirely exempt from everything of difficulty, or liable to no manner of objection.

II. Not a few of the offences taken at religion, at that of Jesus in particular, may, they do in fact, arise entirely from men themselves, rather than from any real occasion that religion gives for them.

III. Many of the particular occasions of offence taken at the Saviour had been themselves actually predicted.

IV. No objections brought against Christianity should be considered alone; they, and the evidence it produces in its favour, should be considered together. The chief objections are —

(1)  The needlessness of any supernatural revelation;

(2)  the want of universality in Christianity;

(3)  the weakness of the evidence produced in its favour;

(4)  the difficulties found in some of the peculiar and sublime doctrines of the gospel;

(5)  the disagreements among those who profess the gospel;

(6)  the stress which Christianity lays upon faith;

(7)  the difficulties of its precepts;

(8)  the inconsistencies of professors.

(John Hodge.)

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KJV: And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.

WEB: Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me."