{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">And if, further, temples are to be compared with temples,\r\nthat we may prove to those who accept the opinions of Celsus\r\nthat we do not object to the erection of temples suited to the\r\nimages and altars of which we have spoken, but that we do refuse\r\nto build lifeless temples to the Giver of all life, let any\r\none who chooses learn how we are taught, that our bodies\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_507\">507</span>are the temple of God, and that if any one by lust or sin\r\ndefiles the temple of God, he will himself be destroyed, as\r\nacting impiously towards the true temple. Of all the temples\r\nspoken of in this sense, the best and most excellent was the\r\npure and holy body of our Saviour Jesus Christ. When He\r\nknew that wicked men might aim at the destruction of the\r\ntemple of God in Him, but that their purposes of destruction\r\nwould not prevail against the divine power which had built that\r\ntemple, He says to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three\r\ndays I will raise it again.... This He said of the temple of\r\nHis body.”<a id=\"r1596\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1596\"><sup>[1596]</sup></a> And in other parts of holy Scripture where it\r\nspeaks of the mystery of the resurrection to those whose ears\r\nare divinely opened, it says that the temple which has been\r\ndestroyed shall be built up again of living and most precious\r\nstones, thereby giving us to understand that each of those who\r\nare led by the word of God to strive together in the duties of\r\npiety, will be a precious stone in the one great temple of God.\r\nAccordingly, Peter says, “Ye also, as lively stones, are built up\r\na spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices,\r\nacceptable to God by Jesus Christ;”<a id=\"r1597\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1597\"><sup>[1597]</sup></a> and Paul also says,\r\n“Being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets,\r\nJesus Christ our Lord being the chief corner-stone.”<a id=\"r1598\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1598\"><sup>[1598]</sup></a> And\r\nthere is a similar hidden allusion in this passage in Isaiah,\r\nwhich is addressed to Jerusalem: “Behold, I will lay thy stones\r\nwith carbuncles, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. And\r\nI will make thy battlements of jasper, and thy gates of crystal,\r\nand all thy borders of pleasant stones. And all thy children\r\nshall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of\r\nthy children. In righteousness shalt thou be established.”<a id=\"r1599\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1599\"><sup>[1599]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VIII.","Chapter XIX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-566"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"76fd017a57109d731798cf7a893a6f6ec14e7301bcbae3af6eaff321c12b0868","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"EPH","chapter":2,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Eph. ii. 20","verse":20,"verse_end":20}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1598","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Existing 1872 English edition; listed translators died 1889 and 1872. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f1598","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1598\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1598\">1598</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Ephesians\">Eph.</abbr> <abbr title=\"two\">ii.</abbr> 20.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1598","text_sha256":"49c526a5c632a9d367e538c61f9d500d4962b068d18c797f066f1ac104f83ea8","verified":false,"work_id":null}