{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Moreover, I will also tell you concerning the temple, how\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_129\">129</span>the wretched [Jews], wandering in error, trusted not in God\r\nHimself, but in the temple, as being the house of God. For\r\nalmost after the manner of the Gentiles they worshipped\r\nHim in the temple.<a id=\"r685\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f685\"><sup>[685]</sup></a> But learn how the Lord speaks, when\r\nabolishing it: “Who hath meted out heaven with a span,\r\nand the earth with his palm? Have not I?”<a id=\"r686\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f686\"><sup>[686]</sup></a> “Thus saith\r\nthe Lord, Heaven is my throne, and the earth my footstool:\r\nwhat kind of house will ye build to me, or what is the place\r\nof my rest?”<a id=\"r687\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f687\"><sup>[687]</sup></a> Ye perceive that their hope is vain. Moreover,\r\nHe again says, “Behold, they who have cast down this\r\ntemple, even they shall build it up again.”<a id=\"r688\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f688\"><sup>[688]</sup></a> It has so\r\nhappened.<a id=\"r689\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f689\"><sup>[689]</sup></a> For through their going to war, it was destroyed\r\nby their enemies; and now they, as the servants of their\r\nenemies, shall rebuild it. Again, it was revealed that the city\r\nand the temple and the people of Israel were to be given up.\r\nFor the Scripture saith, “And it shall come to pass in the\r\nlast days, that the Lord will deliver up the sheep of His\r\npasture, and their sheep-fold and tower, to destruction.”<a id=\"r690\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f690\"><sup>[690]</sup></a>\r\nAnd it so happened as the Lord had spoken. Let us inquire,\r\nthen, if there still is a temple of God. There is—where He\r\nhimself declared He would make and finish it. For it is\r\nwritten, “And it shall come to pass, when the week is completed,\r\nthe temple of God shall be built in glory in the\r\nname of the Lord.”<a id=\"r691\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f691\"><sup>[691]</sup></a> I find, therefore, that a temple does\r\nexist. Learn, then, how it shall be built in the name of the\r\nLord. Before we believed in God, the habitation of our\r\nheart was corrupt and weak, as being indeed like a temple\r\nmade with hands. For it was full of idolatry, and was a\r\nhabitation of demons, through our doing such things as were\r\nopposed to [the will of] God. But it shall be built, observe\r\nye, in the name of the Lord, in order that the temple of the\r\nLord may be built in glory. How? Learn [as follows].\r\nHaving received the forgiveness of sins, and placed our trust\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_130\">130</span>in the name of the Lord, we have become new creatures,\r\nformed again from the beginning. Wherefore in our habitation\r\nGod truly dwells in us. How? His word of faith;\r\nHis calling<a id=\"r692\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f692\"><sup>[692]</sup></a> of promise; the wisdom of the statutes; the\r\ncommands of the doctrine; He himself prophesying in us;\r\nHe himself dwelling in us; opening to us who were enslaved\r\nby death the doors of the temple, that is, the mouth; and by\r\ngiving us repentance introduced us into the incorruptible\r\ntemple.<a id=\"r693\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f693\"><sup>[693]</sup></a> He then, who wishes to be saved, looks not to\r\nman,<a id=\"r694\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f694\"><sup>[694]</sup></a> but to Him who dwelleth in him, and speaketh in\r\nhim, amazed at never having either heard him utter such\r\nwords with his mouth, nor himself having ever desired to\r\nhear them.<a id=\"r695\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f695\"><sup>[695]</sup></a> This is the spiritual temple built for the Lord.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLE OF BARNABAS.","THE EPISTLE OF BARNABAS.","Chap. xvi.—The spiritual temple of God."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-181"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"460bc92f569f462ec1872f4319cd2fba2e3bb766fbd7b12a098c90c0e74a1887","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"DAN","chapter":9,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Dan. ix. 24-27","verse":24,"verse_end":27}],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f691","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. 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