Verse 6 Elect; chosen. 1 Peter 2:7,8. The head of the corner, and a stone of stumbling, &c. The meaning is, that the stone, being placed prominently and conspicuously at the corner, was at the same time a chief support of the building, and also an exposed projection, against which the careless would be most in danger of coming into collision, as it were; that is, a rock which they run against.-- Whereunto; that is, to the destruction above described. (See Luke 22:22. Rom. 9:17-19.)