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25. Further
Spiritualizing of Solomon’s Temple-Building.
It is worth while to enquire how, on the one hand,
Solomon the king is said to have built the temple, and on the other the
master-builder whom Solomon sent and fetched,5128
“Hiram of Tyre, the son of a woman who was a widow; and he was of
the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in
brass, and filled with wisdom and understanding, to work all works in
brass; and he was brought in to King Solomon and wrought all his
works.” Here I ask whether Solomon can be taken for the
first-born of all creation,5129
and Hiram for the
man whom he assumed, from the constraint of men—for the word
Tyrians means “constrainers”—the man who derived his
birth from nature, and being filled with all manner of art and wisdom
and understanding, was brought in to cooperate with the first-born of
all creation, and to build the temple. In this temple there are
also windows,5130
placed obliquely
and out of sight, so that the illumination of the divine light may
enter for salvation, and—why should I go into
particulars?—that the body of Christ, the Church, may be found
having the plan of the spiritual house and temple of God. As I
said before, we require that wisdom which is hidden in a mystery, and
which he alone can apprehend who is able to say, “But we have the
mind of Christ,”—we require that wisdom to interpret
spiritually each detail of what is said in accordance with the will of
Him who caused it to be written. To enter into these details is
not in accordance with our present subject. What has been said
may suffice to let us understand how “He spake about the temple
of His body.”E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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