III. The Temple builder.

In this respect 'a greater than Solomon is here,' inasmuch as Jesus

is Himself the true Temple, being for all men, which Solomon's

structure only shadowed, the meeting-place of God and man, in whom

God dwells and through whom we can draw near to Him, the place where

the true Sacrifice is once for all offered, by which Sacrifice sin

is truly put away. And, further, Jesus is greater than Solomon in

that He is, through the ages, building up the great Temple of His

Church of redeemed men, the eternal temple of which not one stone

shall ever be taken down.

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