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Patristic A.D. 220 · Historical Christian Faith commentaries database, on Ps 118:22-23 (AGAINST MARCION 5.17)

Tertullian, on Ps 117:22

Tertullian · c. A.D. 150–220
Ps 117:22 · Douay-Rheims
“The stone which the builders rejected; the same is become the head of the corner.”
On this verse:
“Thus we find from this passage also, that Christ possessed a body of flesh, such as was able to endure the cross. "When, therefore, he came and preached peace to them that were near and to them which were afar off," we both obtained "access to the Father," being "now no more strangers and foreigners but fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God" (even of him from whom, as we have shown above, we were aliens and placed far off), "built on the foundation of the apostles"—[the apostle added] "and the prophets"; these words, however, the heretic erased, forgetting that the Lord had set in his church not only apostles but prophets also. He feared, no doubt, that our building was to stand in Christ on the foundation of the ancient prophets, since the apostle himself never fails to build us up everywhere with [the words of] the prophets. For whence did he learn to call Christ "the chief cornerstone" but from the figure given him in the psalm: "The stone that the builders rejected is become the head [stone] of the corner"?”

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