And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
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Hilary of Poitiers
AD 368
Or, He set forth the Prophets as it were winepresses, into which an abundant measure of the Holy Spirit, as of new wine, might flow in a teeming stream.
Or, The tower is the eminence of the Law, which ascended from earth to heaven, and from which, as from a watchtower, the coming of Christ might be spied. “And let it out to husbandmen.”.
By the Son sent at last, is denoted the advent of our Lord.
Christ was cast out of Jerusalem, as out of the vineyard, to His sentence of punishment.
He is become the head of the corner, because He is the union of both sides between the Law and the Gentiles.
