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Portrait of Origen Origen Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. IX, Origen on John… (1885)

One may, on the one hand, suppose it to be hopeless to get everything that is said about the temple properly connected with the body, in whatever sense the body be taken, and one may have recourse to a simpler explanation, and say that the body (in either of these senses) is called the temple, because as the temple had the glory of God dwelling in it, so He who was the image and glory of God, the first-born of every creature, could rightly be called, in respect of His body or the Church, the temple containing the image.
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Portrait of Origen Origen Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. IX, Origen on John… (1885)

Christ will be Solomon, which means “Peaceful,” [6] and the prophecy will find its fulfilment in Him, which says, [7] “With those who hated peace I was peaceful.” And then each of the living stones will be, according to the work of his life here, a stone of that temple, one, at the foundation, an apostle or a prophet, bearing those placed upon him, and another, after those in the foundation, and supported by the Apostles, will himself, with the Apostles, help to bear those in more need. One will be a stone of the inmost parts, where the ark is, and the cherubim, and the mercy-seat
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