No longer can the Messiah remain a featureless apocalyptic figure, symbolized, for example, by a while bull.34 No, the Messiah accomplishes the triumph of the kingdom in himself and draws the son of the kingdom to himself. The symbolic temple yields to the person of the present Lord. He is the top-stone, his body is the temple, he bears the glory and exercises the dominion. Precisely because Christ builds the temple in himself he can build it in his disciples. The significance of the temple symbol