Discovery Box1 Peter 2:8-9 
Context2:8 and a stumbling-stone 1 and a rock to trip over. 2 They stumble 3 because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do. 4 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues 5 of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
1 tn Grk “a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.” The latter phrase uses the term σκάνδαλον (skandalon), denoting an obstacle to faith, something that arouses anger and rejection.
2 sn A quotation from Isa 8:14.
3 tn Grk “who stumble,” referring to “those who do not believe” in vs. 7. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
4 tn Grk “to which they were also destined.”
5 sn This verse contains various allusions and quotations from Exod 19:5-6; 23:22 (LXX); Isa 43:20-21; and Mal 3:17.
