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. Jeremiah 51:26; Psalms 113:7-8, notes). The elevation ISRAEL from its low state like a stone on the ground to its future eminence (Psalms 113:7-8) 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" (Zechariah 4:10), but ultimately exceeding in its glory the former temple (Haggai 2:9). Its antitype is Messiah (Zechariah 10:4; Matthew 21:42; Acts 4:11), 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 (Daniel 2:31-35; Daniel 2:44-45), and to "fill the whole earth" (cf. on "the Lord's doing," Zechariah 4:6). 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 (Ephesians 1:23, Greek);