Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV and "whosoever shall defile the temple of God, him shall God defile."[101] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V And not only does he (the apostle) acknowledge our bodies to be a temple, but even the temple of Christ, saying thus to the Corinthians, "Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? "[33] Tertullian Against Marcion Book V -of course, by the God of the temple.[271] Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes But if it seems difficult for you to understand this, and if you do not acquiesce in these statements, I may at all events try to make them good by adducing illustrations. Contemplate man as a kind of temple, according to the similitude of Scripture:[158]