Shortly after this, the church began to take on its new and Christian form. But those who came under the New Testament influence from out of Judaism were steeped in association's derived from Hebrew rights. The apostles therefore, themselves Jews, found it natural and important to address them in terms derived from the old economy; and hence we find no figures more abundant than those which are derived from the temple and it's rights. In this instance the mind of the Apostle Peter, full of the strains of Old testament Psalmody, thinks of his adorable Redeemer as predicted in the 118th Psalm. The words of David are: "the stones which the builders refused is become The head stone of the corner. (Vs. 22). All in a glow with the image, his imagination under Divine influence, Peter proceeds to carry up a spiritual structure on this foundation and to fill it with worshiping, spiritual Israel. So he breaks forth: " to whom coming as unto a living stone, this allowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house and holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ" (1 Pet. 2:4-5). The warmth of Oriental style does not shrink from all that our more severe rules might regard as a mixture of metaphors. The rapid transition of mind here certainly gives origin to a double figure; the same people who in one clause are called the temple are in the next represented as the worshipers. Both Temple and worshipers, in the type, were intended to show forth the Church of God, or the entire body of sanctify believers. From these words, therefore, I invite you to consider with me the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ as a temple.
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