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Bible Encyclopedias
Corner-Stone
Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
or The symbolic title of 'chief corner stone' is applied to Christ in , and; , which last passage is a quotation from . There seems no valid reason for distinguishing this from the stone called 'the head of the corner' (), although some contend that the latter is the top-stone or coping. The 'corner-stone' was a large and massive stone so formed as, when placed at a corner, to bind together two outer walls of an edifice. This properly makes no part of the foundation, from which it is distinguished in; though, as the edifice rests thereon, it may be so called. Sometimes it denotes those massive slabs which, being placed towards the bottom of any wall, serve to bind the work together, as in . Of these there were often two layers, without cement or mortar. This explanation will sufficiently indicate the sense in which the title of 'chief corner-stone' is applied to Christ.
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Kitto, John, ed. Entry for 'Corner-Stone'. "Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature". https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/kbe/c/corner-stone.html.
