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Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes’?
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Verse 42. The head of the corner. By these words, (Psal. 117) which the Jews themselves expounded of their Messias, Christ shewed 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 4:11. Witham.—Saint 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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