18. πεσὼν ἐπ' ἐκεῖνον τὸν λίθον. As the Jews did from the first, 1Co 1:23. See Isa 8:14-15.
συνθλασθήσεται. ‘Shall be sorely bruised.’ The verb is poetic.
ἂν πέση. As it did on the finally impenitent Jews after Christ’s Ascension.
λικμήσει αὐτόν. ‘It shall winnow him’ (Jer 31:10), with obvious reference to the great Image which ‘the stone cut without hands’ smote and broke to pieces, so that its fragments became “like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors, and the wind carried them away,” Dan 2:35. See Mat 21:44.