ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Truly our best tears are not over clean ; and can they make us clean that need themselves to be washed .' Holy Job durst not rely on his purity ; ' If I wash myself with snow-water, and make my hands ever so clean, yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
Commenting on Ephesians 6:10-20
The church is a living, complete temple where all the materials are alive, foundation and superstructure together. As the Jews took pride in Jerusalem's temple, so the Christian system offers all that was truly precious there: a beautiful structure, priesthood, and acceptable worship rendered to God. Here believers find everything of value that belonged to the old sanctuary.
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Christ is the chief cornerstone, chosen by God, precious, laying in Sion the Gospel church as both foundation and cornerstone. He adorns and strengthens the building, unites the parts, and keeps all the saints together, Jews and Gentiles, in all ages. Whoever believes on Him shall not be confounded, neither by men nor devils in this world or the next.
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