particularly well known. See Gnomon on ver. 9 (comp. ch. xxvi. 30). — aT£5ox/>a<rav, rejected) They did not consider Him as even a fit stone or worthy member of the Church at all. — napa Kvpiou syevsro, is the Lord's doing) This is known to be the case, from the importance of the matter, and the disagreement of the builders. — a'vrr), this [Lat. hcec, Fr. cette"]) The feminine for the neuter: a Hebraism. This, sc. thing. In Psalm cii. 19 1 the LXX. render nNT (this, fern.) by airy, thus preserving the gender of the original : as also in the analogous phrases in Ps. cxix.2 50, 56 ; Judg. xv. 7 and xxi. 3, where lyev#i»j aur»j (is THIS come to pass) occurs. Cf. 1 (in S. V. 3) Kings iii. 18. — xal tsn, and is) sc. ton, it (fern.), i.e. pK, the stone, itself is wonderful. — 'Saupaarfi, wonderful3) sc. on account of the great glory which it has obtained. The Evangelist uses the feminine, because he was unwilling to depart from the LXX. — sv fy3aX/*e?g r^uv, in our eyes) sc. of us believers [1 Pet. ii. 7].
43. AurJjs, thereof) sc. the kingdom.4
44. 'O Kssuv eni, X.T.X., whosoever shall fall on, etc.) He falleth on this Stone (sc. Christ in His humiliation) who stumbles (offendit) by not believing, whilst the Gospel is being preached ; but this Stone (sc. Christ in His glory) falleth on him, who is crushed by His sudden coming to judgment. Both happen especially to the Jews, and also to the Gentiles. See 2 Thess. i. 8, and Dan. ii. 34, 45. — X/x/^<r£/, shall scatter, dissolve, dis sipate, reduce to dust) The verb >./x/xav signifies to scatter, as when chaff is given to the winds. See the LXX., who employ this verb in Job xxvii. 21 for the Hebrew "W, to sweep away in a storm ; in Dan. ii. 44, for *)DN, to destroy ; and repeatedly elsewhere for HIT, to scatter or disperse.
45.5 Asyei, He is speaking) They perceived that Jesus had not yet concluded what He had to say. See ch. xxii. 1.
1 These are the Hebrew numbers. In S. V. it is ci. 18; in E. V. cii. 18. -(I. B.)
2 Numbered cxviii. in S. V. — (I. B.)
3 Bengel in both instances uses the word mirabilis, which implies in this place admiration as well as wonder. — (I. B.)
4 Even though thou mayest be a good tree, yet thy fruit is not thine own, iiut that of the vineyard. Rom. xi. 17. — V. g.
* Kept MVTUV) as being the 'husbandmen' and the 'builders.' — V. g.