Corner in Biblical History

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What is a Corner?
COR'NER
According to the Mosaic law, it was forbidden to reap the corners of the field, so that there might be gleanings for the poor. Lev 19:9; Jer 23:22. The "corner of the house-top," Prov 21:9, is a narrow place exposed to sun and rain, contrasted with the wide room or house below. The word "corner" in the phrase "corners of Moab," or of any other country. Num 24:17; Jer 48:45, means the length and breadth of the country, and also of the world. "Corner of a bed," Am 3:12, the corner of a room, was on the elevated part (used by night for a bed or couch), and contained the most honorable seat. See Bed. In the passage last cited it figuratively denotes the most proud and luxurious of the Israelites in Samaria. In Zech 10:4 the word "corner" is used to denote either the corner-stone or the most conspicuous part of a building, and evidently refers to Christ, Matt 21:42, where he is mentioned as "the head" (or chief ) "of the corner," though the Jews, in erecting the temple of their faith, rejected him as unfit for so important a place. Corner-stone. Job 38:6. A massive stone placed at the foundation in the corner of a building, and binding the two walls together. Christ is called " the Corner-stone of the Church" because he gives strength and unity to the whole structure of God's house. Comp. Eph 2:20; 1 Pet 2:6; Matt 21:42; Rom 9:32-33; 1 Cor 1:23.

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