Verse 4
4. The same lesson is now enforced by representing Christian growth under the figure of building.
Coming Daily and continually, by faith.
A living stone The reference is to Isaiah 8:14-15; Isaiah 28:16; <19B822>Psalms 118:22; combined by the apostle. Christ is not here compared to a living stone: he is himself the living stone, the foundation stone of the spiritual edifice, the church; nay, he is the corner stone, binding together its walls. See note on Ephesians 2:20. He is called living, having full life in himself, and being the fountain of all life to his followers.
Disallowed Rejected by the Sanhedrin, the official representatives of the nation and builders of the Church, and cast aside as a vile blasphemer; but chosen out of all possible stones by God, as in his sight the most perfectly fitted to be the foundation of the Church.
Precious Better, honoured, that is, with this high dignity.
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