{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/103/1030477.htm","path":"chr/ecf/103/1030477.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/103/1030477.htm","text":"13. It follows in the Creed, \u201cAnd in the Holy Ghost.\u201d This Trinity, one God, one nature, one substance, one power; highest equality, no division, no diversity, perpetual dearness of love. 1795 Would ye know the Holy Ghost, that He is God? Be baptized, and ye will be His temple. The Apostle says, \u201cKnow ye not that your bodies are the temple within you of the Holy Ghost, Whom ye have of God?\u201d 1796 A temple is for God: thus also Solomon, king and prophet, was bidden to build a temple for God. If he had built a temple for the sun or moon or some star or some angel, would not God condemn him? Because therefore he built a temple for God he showed that he worshipped God. And of what did he build? Of wood and stone, because God deigned to make unto Himself by His servant an house on earth, where He might be asked, where He might be had in mind. Of which blessed Stephen says, \u201cSolomon built Him an house; howbeit the Most High dwelleth not in temples made by hand.\u201d 1797 If then our bodies are the temple of the Holy Ghost, what manner of God is it that built a temple for the Holy Ghost? But it was God. For if our bodies be a temple of the Holy Ghost, the same built this temple for the Holy Ghost, that built our bodies. Listen to the Apostle saying, \u201cGod hath tempered the body, giving unto that which lacked the greater honor;\u201d 1798 when he was speaking of the different members that there should be no schisms in the body. God created our body. The grass, God created; our body Who created? How do we prove that the grass is God\u2019s creating? He that clothes, the same creates. Read the Gospel, \u201cIf then the grass of the fields,\u201d saith it, \u201cwhich to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, God so clotheth.\u201d 1799 He, then, creates Who clothes. And the Apostle: \u201cThou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened except it die; and that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but a bare grain, as perchance of wheat, or of some other corn; but God giveth it a body as He would, and to each one of seeds its proper body.\u201d 1800 If then it be God that builds our bodies, God that builds our members, and our bodies are the temple of the Holy Ghost, doubt not that the Holy Ghost is God. And do not add as it were a third God; because Father and Son and Holy Ghost is One God. So believe ye.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. III: Doctrinal Treat...","type":"page"}