Because of the stumbling of the Jews, in the which, they broke the covenant made by their fathers at Sinai and in the perversion of the ordinances they had received, they were brought to reject "the stone upon which they might build and have safe foundation." Jacob saw that the Jews would reject Christ and in doing so they refused to receive the stone, which according to the Scriptures "shall become the great, and the last, and the only sure foundation, upon which the Jews can build."