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Edwards on The Church as the Temple of God

"And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither; so that there was neither hammer, nor ax, nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was building." This temple represents the church of God, who are called God's temple, a spiritual house, Jesus Christ being chief cornerstone, and all the saints as so many stones. Particularly by Solomon's temple is meant the church triumphant, as by the tabernacle the church militant; by the exact fitting, squaring, and smoothing of those stones before they were brought thither, represents the perfection of the saints in glory. Heaven is not a place to prepare them; they are all prepared before they come there. They come perfectly sinless and holy into heaven. The world is the place where God hews them, and squares them by his prophets and ministers (1 Kings 5:6), by the reproofs and warnings of his word, which God compares to a hammer, by persecutions and afflictions. There shall be no noise of these tools heard in heaven, but all these lively stones of this spiritual and glorious building are exactly fitted, framed, and polished before they come there.

 

Jonathan Edwards, Notes on Scripture #148
Posted on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 by Michael Kelly

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