CORNER, CORNER-STONE.1. The special sanctity which in the Hebrew mind attached to corners is to be regarded as an inheritance from certain primitive and widely-spread animistic conceptions. Several of these were taken up and, so to say, regularized in the later legislation (cf. the remarks on Azazel under Atonement [Day of]). Examples will be found in the ideas associated with the corners of the altar (Zec 9:15), usually termed the horns (Altar, 7), the unreaped corners of the field (Lev 19:9; Agriculture, 3), the corners of the beard and head-hair (Lev 19:27) and of the upper garment or cloak (Fringes).<\/p>\n
2. Another illustration is found in the importance attached among many peoples to the corner-stone in the foundation course of every important building, which was laid with religious rites, including, in early times, the burial beneath it of a human victim (see House, 3). The corrected text of Isa 28:16 speaks of a precious foundation corner-stone, which is neither Zion (as usually interpreted), nor the future Messiah, but a calm trust in J [Note: Jahweh.] ; hence the prophet adds he that trusts shall not be moved or put to shame (LXX [Note: Septuagint.] , cf. 1Pe 2:6 and Kittel, Bib. Heb.). Jer 51:26 and Job 38:6 both associate the corner-stone with the foundations. Hence the figurative use of the word for the chief men of the State, as its corners, i.e. supports and defences (Jdg 20:2, 1Sa 14:38 [cf. marg.], Isa 19:13 RV [Note: Revised Version.] , Zec 10:4). On the other hand, the stone of Psa 118:22 which became the head of the corner (RV [Note: Revised Version.] )the reference is to Zionis understood by many to be the corner-stone of the topmost course. (cf. the head stone of Zec 4:7, which is different from the foundation of Zec 4:9). In NT this passage and Isa 28:16 receive a Messianic application, Jesus Christ being both the foundation and the head of His Church (Mat 21:42 ||, Act 4:11, 1Pe 2:6 f.).<\/p>\n
A. R. S. Kennedy.<\/p>\n
Corner, Corner-Stone CORNER, CORNER-STONE.1. The special sanctity which in the Hebrew mind attached to corners is to be regarded as an inheritance from certain primitive and widely-spread animistic conceptions. Several of these were taken up and, so to say, regularized in the later legislation (cf. the remarks on Azazel under Atonement [Day of]). Examples will … Continue reading “Corner, Corner-Stone”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}