Psalm 118:22 (WEB)
The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
Catechism · 2
Jesus and Israel
“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
“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.
Read the whole comment“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
“This is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes (Ps. cxvii. 22).” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
““The Stone which the builders refused, this is become the head of the corner.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxviii. 22.
Read the whole comment“The same Corner Stone “which the builders rejected, is become the Head Stone of the corner.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxviii. 22.
Read the whole comment“For to this end the Stone which the builders set at nought, hath even been made for the Head of the corner, in order that two in itself It might join: for a corner doth unite two walls.” — editor's note: Ps. cxviii. 22.
Read the whole comment“Wherefore just as Christ is a stone, but to believers for the Head of the corner, while to unbelievers a stone of offence and a rock of scandal; so the testimony of the Law to them that use not the Law lawfully, is a testimony whereby sinners are to be convicted as deserving of punishment; but to them…” — editor's note: Ps. cxviii. 22; 1 Pet. ii. 8.
Read the whole comment“…the people of Israel, and out of the rest of the nations, by means of the Stone which the builders rejected, and which hath become for the Head of the corner, in which corner as it were two walls coming from different quarters were united.” — editor's note: Ps. cxviii. 22.
Read the whole comment“The circumcision cometh from one side: the uncircumcision from the other; in Christ both peoples have met together: because He hath become the stone, of which it is written, “The stone which the builders rejected, hath become the head of the corner.”…” — editor's note: Ps. cxviii. 22.
Read the whole comment““The Stone which the builders rejected” (ver. 22); for “It hath become the head Stone of the corner” to “make in Himself of twain one new man, so making peace; and that He might reconcile both unto God in one body;” circumcision, to wit, and uncircumcision.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“…tributaries, while it set Christ in the centre of them like the corner-stone (in accordance with what had been announced beforetime by the prophet), in whom both parties, like walls advancing from different sides, that is to say, from Jews and from Gentiles, might be joined together in the affection of…” — editor's note: Ps. cxviii. 22; Isa. xxviii. 16
Read the whole comment“The stone is cut from a mountain: the same is the stone which the builders rejected, and is become the head of the corner.” — editor's note: Ps. cxviii. 22.
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Ambrose of Milan
“…will cry out; these stones now firmly laid upon that stone of which it is written: “The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxviii. [cxvii.] 22.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“This is the day which the Lord hath made; let us walk and rejoice in it.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxviii. 22.
Read the whole comment“Blessed is He who cometh in the name of the Lord.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxviii. 21–26.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“This, he affirms, is Adam: “The chief corner-stone become the head of the corner.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxviii. 22; Isa. xxviii. 16.
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Cross-references · 30
Cited together with
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 23.
Cited together in Catechism §756.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII VII.5.
Cited together in Catechism §587.
Cited together in Catechism §587.
Cited together in Catechism §587.
Cited together in Catechism §756.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 23.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 23.
Cited together in Catechism §756.
Cited together in Catechism §756.
Cited together in Catechism §756.
Cited together in Catechism §756.
Cited together in Catechism §756.
Cited together in Catechism §756.
Cited together in Catechism §756.
Cited together in Catechism §756.
Cited together in Catechism §756.
Cited together in Catechism §756.
Cited together in Catechism §756.
Cited together in Catechism §756.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 23.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII VII.5.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII VII.5.
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1 Peter 2:7 takes up the words of Psalm 118:22 (9 words in common).
