Epistle of Barnabas 15
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Moreover I will speak with you also concerning the Temple, and show how the wretched men, having erred, set their hope on the building, and not on their God who made them, as being a house of God.
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For like the Gentiles almost they consecrated Him by means of the Temple. But what saith the Lord abolishing it? Learn ye. Who hath measured the heaven with a span, or hath measured the earth with his hand? Have not I, saith the Lord? Heaven is my throne, and Earth the footstool of my feet. What manner of house will ye build for me? Or what place shall be my resting place?
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Ye perceive that their hope is vain. Moreover He saith again: Behold they that destroyed this temple shall themselves build it.
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So it cometh to pass; for because they went to war it was pulled down by their enemies. Now they too, and the servants of their enemies, shall build it up.
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Again, it was revealed how the city and the temple and the people of Israel should be betrayed. For the scripture saith: And it shall be in the last days, that the Lord shall deliver up the sheep of the pasture and the sheepfold and the tower thereof to destruction.
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And it came to pass as the Lord spake. But let us enquire whether there be any temple of God. There is, in the place where He himself undertakes to make and finish it.
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For it is written: And it shall come to pass, when the week is being completed, the temple of God shall be built gloriously in the name of the Lord.
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I find then that a temple existeth. Learn how it shall be built in the name of the Lord. Before we believed in God the abode of our heart was corrupt and weak, as being verily built by hands.
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For it was full of idolatry, and was a house of demons, through our doing such things as were contrary to God. But it shall be built in the name of the Lord. Give heed then that the temple of the Lord may be built gloriously.
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