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Matthew 21:42

Jesus said unto them, Did you never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same has become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes?

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

The head of the corner. By these words, (Psalm cxvii,) which the Jews themselves expounded of their Messias, Christ showed them, that although they, who should have been the architects, had rejected him, yet he should be the chief corner-stone to unite the Jews and the Gentiles, converted into one Christian Church, militant on earth and triumphant in heaven. See Acts iv. 11. (Witham) St. Augustine remarks, that this parable was addressed not only to the opponents of Christ's authority, but likewise to the people.

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