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17 May 2018

The Temple And The Spirit

Et egressus de templo ibat: et accesserunt discipuli ejus, ut ostenderent ei structuram templi.
 

Post comminationem deserendae Jerusalem, tamquam commovendus ambitione templi esset, magnificentia ei exstructionis ostenditur. Qui ait destruenda omnia esse, et dispersis totius substructionis lapidibus diruenda. Templum enim aeternam ad habitationem sancti Spiritus consecrabatur: homo scilicet per agnitionem Filii et confessionem Patris et praeceptorum obedientiam Deo fieri dignus habitaculum.

Sanctus Hilarius Pictaviensis, In Evangelium Matthaei Commentarius, Cap XXV
And He went out from the Temple and His disciples came to Him that they show him the structure of the temple...  1

After the warning of the destruction of Jerusalem, as one moved by the ostentation of the temple, He taught that its magnificence would be thrown down, saying that it would be utterly destroyed and all its bricks scattered right down to its foundations. For He was consecrating the eternal temple and habitation of the Holy Spirit, that is, man, who by the knowledge of the Son and the confession of the Father, and obedience to the commandments, would become a worthy little dwelling place of God

Saint Hilary of Poitiers, Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 25


1 Mt 24.1

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