AE 415, 417 - The Corner

AE 415

"four angels standing upon the four corners of the earth,"
(Revelation 7:1)

means the Divine proceeding from the Lord
in the whole spiritual world . . ..

AE 417 [12]

"The stone which the builders rejected
is become the head of the corner."
(Psalm 118:22;
see also Matthew 21:42; Mark 12:10, 11; Luke 20:17, 18).

"The stone of the corner" means all Divine truth
upon which heaven and the church are founded,
thus every foundation;
and as the foundation is the ultimate
upon which a house or temple rests,
therefore it signifies all things.
Because "the stone of the corner"
means all things upon which the church is founded it is said
"I will lay in Zion for a foundation a stone,
a proved stone, a precious cornerstone,
of a foundation that is founded;"
(Isaiah 28:16)
and it is called also "a stone for a corner"
and "a stone of foundations;"
and because "the stone of the corner"
signifies all Divine truth upon which the church is founded,
it also signifies the Lord in respect to His Divine Human;
because all Divine truth proceeds from that;
"the builders" (or architects) who rejected that stone,
as is read in the Gospels,
are those who are of the church,
here of the Jewish Church,
which rejected the Lord,
and with Him all Divine truth;
for with them there was nothing but vain traditions
drawn from the sense of the letter of the Word
in which the truths themselves of the Word
were falsified and its goods adulterated.