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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

1 Peter 2:7 → Psalms 118:22

Quotation

Later text

1 Peter 2:7BSB

To you who believe, then, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,”

Earlier text

Psalms 118:22BSB

The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

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Earlier text

Psalms 118BSB

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Significance

Peter's use of Psalm 118:22 demonstrates the divine reversal pattern central to the gospel. What human builders rejected, God made the cornerstone. This psalm, originally celebrating God's vindication of Israel despite enemies' opposition, finds ultimate fulfillment in Christ's rejection by Jewish leaders and resurrection by God. Peter applies this to his readers' experience: their honor comes from association with the vindicated stone, not from social acceptance. The hermeneutical move links Israel's experience of divine vindication to Christ's rejection-to-exaltation pattern, showing that believers share in both Christ's rejection and his honor. Human evaluation proved wrong; God's assessment stands eternally.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment

▸ The Stone the Builders Rejected

Hermeneutical Notes

NT Use Pattern: Assimilated — Second element of Peter's three-text stone composite at 1 Peter 2:6-8 — the stone the builders rejected becoming the chief cornerstone.

Linked Mentions 6

Trajectory Tables 5

Anchor Texts 1

Psalm 118:22 — The Stone the Builders Rejected

1 Peter 2:7 → Psalms 118:22

Significance

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Hermeneutical Notes