coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.
A living stone ... This is an appropriate metaphor for Christ who is the Lord of life.  He is the eternally living one.  "Rejected indeed of men ..." Jesus Christ the Messiah was the true and only foundation of this spiritual temple; but he did not fit the designs and purposes of the "builders" in Jerusalem who found him totally unsuitable for any use at all in the building they had in mind; therefore, they rejected him.  Really, this should have been expected, because their concept of a temple for God was precisely like that of the idol temples which filled the world of that era, namely, a pile of stone, timber and gold.  The idea of such an edifice being in any real sense God's temple was a human conceit from the very inception of it.  See article on the True Temple, below.