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Psalm 118:22

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Psalm 118:22 (WEB)

The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

Catechism · 2

Jesus and Israel

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    “If the Law and the Jerusalem Temple could be occasions of opposition to Jesus by Israel's religious authorities, his role in the redemption of sins, the divine work par excellence, was the true stumbling-block for them.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Lk 2:34; 20:17-18; Ps 118:22.

The Church in God's Plan

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    “It is this holy city that is seen by John as it comes down out of heaven from God when the world is made anew, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.” — Catechism footnote: LG 6; Cf. 1 Cor 3:9; Mt 21:42 and parallels; Acts 4:11; 1 Pet 2:7; PS 118:22; 1 Cor 3:11; 1 Tim 3:15; Eph 2:19-22; Rev 21:3; 1 Pet 2:5; Rev 21:1-2.

Fathers and councils · 17

Irenaeus of Lyons

  • “…which He became a man subject to stripes, and knowing what it is to bear infirmity, and sat upon the foal of an ass, and was a stone rejected by the builders, and was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and by the stretching forth of His hands destroyed Amalek; while He gathered from the ends of the earth into His…” — editor's note: Ps. cxviii. 22.

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Tertullian

  • “…of the sons of men,” “a man set in the plague, and knowing how to bear infirmity:” to wit as having been set by the Father “for a stone of offence,” and “made a little lower” by Him “than angels,” He pronounces Himself “a worm, and not a man, an ignominy of man, and the refuse of the People.”” — editor's note: See Isa. viii. 14 (where, however, the LXX. rendering is widely different) with Rom. ix. 32, 33; Ps. cxviii. 22 (cxvii. 22 in LXX.); 1 Pet. ii. 4.

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  • “For whence did he learn to call Christ “the chief corner-stone,” but from the figure given him in the Psalm: “The stone which the builders rejected is become the head (stone) of the corner?”” — editor's note: Ps. cxviii. 22.

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Gregory the Great

Augustine of Hippo

Ambrose of Milan

Cyprian of Carthage

Hippolytus of Rome

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  • 1 Peter 2:7 takes up the words of Psalm 118:22 (9 words in common).

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