{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/009/0090340.htm","path":"chr/ecf/009/0090340.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/009/0090340.htm","text":"25. Further Spiritualizing of Solomon\u2019s Temple-Building.\nIt 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 \u201cHiram 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.\u201d 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\u2014for the word Tyrians means \u201cconstrainers\u201d\u2014the 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\u2014why should I go into particulars?\u2014that 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, \u201cBut we have the mind of Christ,\u201d\u2014we 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 \u201cHe spake about the temple of His body.\u201d","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol IX: Epistle to Gregory and Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of John.: Chapter XXV","type":"page"}