Psalms 118:23

This is the LORD's doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.

This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. Israel may be the stone in, the primary and typical sense (cf. ; Psalms 113:7, notes). The elevation ISRAEL from its low state like a stone on the ground to its future eminence (Psalms 113:7) is symbolized by the foundation-stone of the temple, the cornerstone (the point where all the building is joined, and wherein it rests) "despised" in its "day of small things" (), but ultimately exceeding in its glory the former temple (). Its antitype is Messiah (; ; ), the "stone cut out of the mountain without hands," overlooked at first, but ultimately about to "break in pieces and consume all the kingdoms" represented by the world-power image (; ), and to "fill the whole earth" (cf. on "the Lord's doing," ). The stone, in the sense of filling the whole earth, may refer to the Church, the body and fullness of Christ, who filleth all with all (, Greek);