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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...

all servants are sons; no, all the servants of God are not sons; and therefore when time shall come, he that is only a servant here, shall certainly be put out of the house, even out of that house himself did help to build. ‘The servant abideth not in the house for ever,’ the servant, that is, he that is only so (Eze 46:16, 17; John 8:35). So then, as a son, thou art an Israelite; as a servant, a Gibeonite. The consideration of this made Paul start; he knew that gifts made him not a son (1 Cor 12:28–31,
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