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John Bunyan was far from the first to find spiritual meaning in the structure and furniture of the Temple. Jewish rabbis and Christian church fathers alike indulged in sometimes extreme and fanciful interpretation of the Temple’s symbolic nature. Here Bunyan confines himself to “those types exhibited in the temple and alluded to by the inspired writers of the New Testament” such as Christ as the...

‘Mine eye seeth thee, wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.’ Thus, in Solomon’s beautiful prayer on the dedication of this gorgeous temple, he humbly inquires, ‘Will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have built?’ (2 Chron 6:18). Thus was completed the most perfect, splendid, and magnificent building that was ever erected by human hands. Still it was only a type of that infinitely
Volume 3, Page 461
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