{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3118","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":4,"chapter_to":4,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":11,"verse_to":11},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Bede</b>: This is the stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone. The builders were the Jews, who, while all the nations were dwelling in the desolation of idols, they alone were reading the law and the prophets daily for edification. As they were building, they came upon the cornerstone, which would embrace two walls, that is, they found in the prophetic Scriptures that Christ would come in the flesh and build two peoples in Himself. And because they preferred to stand on one wall, that is, to be saved alone, they rejected the stone, which was not suited to one, but to two. However, God, though they were unwilling, Himself placed this stone as the chief cornerstone, that from the two testaments and the two peoples, a building of one and the same faith might arise.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"This is the stone,\" he says, \"which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.\" He reminds them also of a saying which was enough to frighten them. For it had been said, \"Whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.\"<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 10</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"This,\" says he, \"is the Stone which was set at naught by you builders;\" and then he goes on to teach them, saying in addition, \"Which is made the head of the corner\"; that is to say, that the Stone is indeed approved! Great was the boldness they now had, in consequence of the miracle.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 10</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: And the phrase, \"This is the stone,\" does not refer to the lame man, but to Jesus Christ, in whose name the lame man was healed. This stone, though rejected by you who were appointed for the building, has become for the house the chief cornerstone of faith, joining together both walls, the people from the Jews and those from the Gentiles, into agreement of one faith.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: But when he had urged them with these words, he also adds what is from Scripture, saying \"the stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner,\" (Ps. 118:22) and whatever formerly on this matter was treated by us.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"f5b8098a185c2ee31eb496a378a3f0292f65def0075d77a3b4a3c5a0c7c15e92","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3118,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"09c9c1fe92d12f31a4d0e36bd3cc81483f6a723100c51d31e7a110b523c5b1bc","translator":null,"work":null}