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ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 411 heard of before, not concealed in a corner of the earth, but spread over every part of it under the sun 1 Who has so forti fied his soldiers with the arms of piety, that their souls more firm than adamant, shine resplendent in the contest against their antagonists 1 What king ever prevailed to such an extent, as to lead on his armies after death, rear trophies against his enemies, and fill every place and city and region, whether Grecian or bar barian, with his royal palaces and the consecrations of his sacred temples ? Witness the splendid ornaments and donations of this very temple, which themselves are noble and truly grand, wor thy of admiration and astonishment, and expressive symbols of our Saviour's kingdom. Truly ' he hath spoken, and they were made ; he hath commanded, and they were created.' For what was there to resist the beck of the universal King, the universal Prince, and God, the Word himself.* It would require a pecu liar leisure to survey and explain each particular minutely ; and not only this, but to explain how great and powerful the alacrity of those who have laboured in the work, has been judged by him whom we celebrate, who looks into the temple within our souls, and surveys the building of living and moving stones, hap pily and securely built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone. Whom, indeed, not only those of that ancient building no longer existing, have rejected ; but also, those of the building now ex isting, that vast multitude of men, wretched architects of the wicked as they are.f But the Father having proved him now as \vell as then, has established him as the head of the corner of this our common church. This, therefore, the living temple of the living God, formed of yourselves, I say, is the greatest and the truly divine sanctuary, whose inmost shrines, though invisible to the multitude, are really holy, a holy of holies. Who, when he has viewed it within, would venture to declare it 1 But who could ever penetrate its sacred enclosures, save only the great The expression here, is UTOU ©EOU xoyoo. f Eusebius here alludes to the two dispensations, Jewish and Christian. The former building had passed away ; the latter now existing, was still rejected by the multitude of the heathen world. 37*