* glory.
Ps 24:7-10 Joh 1:14 2Co 3:9,10 1Ti 3:16 Jas 2:1
* saith.
Whoever compares the description of the temple of Solomon, in
the first book of Kings, with the most splendid accounts of
the second temple, however adorned with costly stones and
other magnificent decorations in after ages, must perceive
that the former, being wholly overlaid with pure gold, was
incomparably more glorious than the latter in its greatest
magnificence; and the Jews themselves allow that the ark of
the covenant, fire from heaven, the {Urim} and {Thummim,} the
anointing oil, the {Shechinah,} or visible glory, and the
spirit of prophecy, which distinguished the former temple,
were wanting in this. In nothing, in fact, could the second
temple excel the first in glory, except in the personal
presence of "the Desire of all nations," He who is "the glory
of the Lord," and the true temple, "in whom dwells all the
fulness of the Godhead bodily," and who was the true
{Shechinah,} of which that of Solomon's temple was merely a
type. And if it be admitted that the presence of the promised
Messiah was intended, then it will follow that "Jesus of
Nazareth" was He; for the second temple, in which as the
"Prince of peace" he preached peace and reconciliation with
God, has been utterly destroyed for upwards of seventeen
hundred years.
* give.
Ps 85:8,9 Isa 9:6,7 57:18-21 Mic 5:5 Lu 2:14 Joh 14:27
Ac 10:36 Eph 2:14-17 Col 1:19-21
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