{"id":8305,"date":"2014-10-19T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/?p=8305"},"modified":"2014-10-19T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T14:01:00","slug":"a-house-of-god-built-of-living-stones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2014\/10\/a-house-of-god-built-of-living-stones\/","title":{"rendered":"A house of God built of living stones"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Solomon\"From the Commentary on the Gospel of John by Origen, Priest<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cBut he spoke of the temple of his body.\u201d\u00a0 When, therefore, Christ was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.\u00a0 This refers to the statement that the Body of the Son is his temple.\u00a0 It may be asked whether this is to be taken in its plain sense, or whether we should try to connect each statement that is recorded about the temple, with the view we take about the Body of Jesus, whether the Body which he received from the Virgin, or that body of Christ which the Church is said to be<\/strong>, as we are said by the Apostle to be all members of His body.\u00a0 One may, on the one hand, suppose it to be hopeless to get everything that is said about the temple properly connected with the body, in whatever sense the body be taken, and one may have recourse to a simpler explanation, and say that the body (in either of these senses) is called the temple, because as the temple had the glory of God dwelling in it, so he who was the image and glory of God, the first-born of every creature, could rightly be called, in respect of his body or the Church, the temple containing the image.<\/p>\n

The body is the Church, and we learn from Peter that it is a house of God, built of living stones, a spiritual house for a holy priesthood.<\/strong>\u00a0 Thus the son of David, who builds this house, is a type of Christ.\u00a0 He builds it when his wars are at an end, and a period of profound peace has arrived; he builds the temple for the glory of God in the Jerusalem on earth, so that worship may no longer be celebrated in a moveable erection like the tabernacle.\u00a0 Let us seek to find in the Church the truth of each statement made about the temple.\u00a0 If all Christ’s enemies are made the footstool of His feet, and Death, the last enemy, is destroyed, then there will be the most perfect peace.\u00a0 Christ will be Solomon, which means Peaceful<\/strong>, and the prophecy will find its fulfilment in Him, which says, \u201cWith those who hated peace I was peaceful.\u201d<\/p>\n

And then each of the living stones will be, according to the work of his life here, a stone of that temple, one, at the foundation, an apostle or a prophet, bearing those placed upon him, and another, after those in the foundation, and supported by the Apostles, will himself, with the Apostles, help to bear those in more need.\u00a0 One will be a stone of the inmost parts, where the ark is, and the cherubim, and the mercy-seat; another will be on the outer wall, and another even outside the outer wall of the levites and priests, a stone of the altar of whole burnt offerings.<\/strong>\u00a0 And the management and service of these things will be entrusted to holy powers, angels of God, being, respectively, lordships, thrones, dominions, or powers; and there will be others subject to these, typified by three thousand six hundred chief officers, who were appointed over the works of Solomon, and the seventy thousand of those who bore burdens, and the eighty thousand stone-cutters in the mountain, who wrought in the work, and prepared the stones and the wood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Commentary on the Gospel of John by Origen, Priest \u201cBut he spoke of the temple of his body.\u201d\u00a0 When, therefore, Christ was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.\u00a0 This refers to the statement that the Body <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-florilegium-patristicum"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-29X","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8308,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305\/revisions\/8308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}