George W. MacRae, S.J. Harvard Divinity School Apocalyptic literature envisioned a complete temple in heaven (TLevi 5:1), perhaps a development of the idea of the divine “pattern” (Exod 25:9). In Hellenistic Judaism we find the imagery of a temple-structured universe, the outer courts representing sea and earth, the inner court, heaven (Josephus); Philo also distinguished between the sense-perceptible world (the outer courts) and
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