ACC ~ Mark 13 v1

BELIEVER AS TEMPLE

ORIGEN: The temple was not overthrown all at once, but gradually as time went by. Similarly, every one who welcomes the Word of God into himself is something like a temple. If, after committing sin he does not completely fall away from the Word of God, but still partially preserves in himself traces of faith and accountability to God’s commands, he is a temple partly destroyed, partly standing. But he who after sinning has no care for himself but is always prone to depart from faith and from life according to the gospel, till he completely departs from the living God, he is a temple in which no stone of doctrine is left upon any stone and not thrown down. COMMENTARY ON MATTHEW 29. [1]

[1] PG 13:1640; AEG 5:113-14*.

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