οὐδέποτε ἀνέγνωτε, etc.: another of Christ's impromptu felicitous quotations; from Psalms 118:22-23 (Sept [119]). This quotation contains, in germ, another parable, in which the ejected and murdered heir of the former parable becomes the rejected stone of the builders of the theocratic edifice; only, however, to become eventually the accepted honoured stone of God. It is an apposite citation, because probably regarded as Messianic by those in whose hearing it was made (it was so regarded by the Rabbis Schöttgen, ad loc.), and because it intimated to them that by killing Jesus they would not be done with Him.

[119] Septuagint.

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