1. THAT THE BUILDING OF THE TABERNACLE AND THE: Temple Signify One And The Same Church Of
BOOK ONE
1. THAT THE BUILDING OF THE TABERNACLE AND THE
TEMPLE SIGNIFY ONE AND THE SAME CHURCH OF
CHRIST 1.1 The house of God which king Solomon built in Jerusalem was made as a figure of the holy universal Church which, from the first of the elect to the last to be born at the end of the world, is daily being built through the grace of the king of peace, namely, its redeemer.
It is still partly in a state of pilgrimage from him on earth, and partly, having escaped from the hardships of its sojourn, already reigns with him in heaven, where, when the last judgement is over, it is to reign completely with him. To this house belong the chosen angels, whose likeness is promised us in the life to come on the Lord's word: Those who are judged worthy of a place in the other world and in the resurrection from the dead do not many because they can no longer die, for they are on a par with the angels, and being children of the resurrection, they are children of God;' to it belongs the very mediator between God and men, himselfa human being, Christ
Jesus,2 as he himself attests when he says, Destroy this temple, and [147] in three days Z shall raise it up.3 To which the evangelist by way of explanation added: But he was speaking of the temple of his own body.'
Furthermore, the Apostle says of us, Do you not realize that you are a temple of God with the Spirit of God living in If, therefore, he became the temple of God by assuming human nature and we become the temple of God through his Spirit dwelling in us,6 it is quite clear that the material temple was a figure of us all, that is, both of the Lord himself and his members which we are. But (it was a figure) of him as the uniquely chosen and precious cornerstone laid in the fo~ndation,~ and of us as the living stones built upon the ' Lk2035-36 1 Tm 2:s Jn 2:19
Jn 2:21
1 Co3:16
Rm8:lI cf. Is28:16