...another end, and differently exprefltil; For when the Jews a£ked him to Ihew ihem a fign, he faid, Deftroy this temple, and in three days I will raife it up. In fuch cafes as thefe, an innocent m;ui is half confounded, and looketh as if he were guilty, fince...

...propofed doing } doing ; particularly, fays he, when the people defired him to fhew them a fign, he faid unto them, " Deftroy this temple, and in three days I " will raife it up *." But did be ever perform this ? Jefus (Thrift fpokc of the temple of his body, which he did raife again...

...** were dead yet flialrhelive" — And when, upon his difciples fhewing him the temple, he faid, *' Deftroy this temple, and in three days I will *' raife it up" — it is manifeft that, on thefe particular occafions, he delivers general expreffions, which are...

...the Lord, one with the Father, God, Luke xxiii. 42,43, and xxiv. 26. XX. " Jefus anfwered and faid unto them, Deftroy this temple, and in three days I will raife it up," in faying which " he fpake of the temple of his body," John ii. ig, 2i. Here Jefus Chrift declares...

...another end, and differently exprefled : for when the Jews afked him to fhew them a fign, he faid ; " Deftroy this temple, and in three days " I will raife it up." In fuch cafes as thefe, an innocent man is half confounded, and looketh as if he were guilty, fince...

...fame, that in him dwelt all thefulnefs of the Godhead bodily. Well therefore might he fay of his body, deftroy this temple, and in three days I will raife it up again; for it was both a tabernacle and temple in a ftri&er fenfe than had ever been before ; the Godhead...

...I faw thee under the ' fig tree, belicvcft thou ? Thou (halt fee greater 14 things than thefe. — Deftroy this Temple, and in, * three days I will raife it up. He (pake of the ' Temple of his body.' And, is he who (pake this a mere man f Can a mere man raifc...

...Jerufalem •was fignificative of rhe Lord's Divine Humanity, He himfelf teaches in thefe Words, " Deftroy this Temple, and in *' three Days I will raife it up ; but he •" fpake of the Temple of his Body," John ii. i9, 2i ; and where the Lord is fignified, the Word...

...alfo a figure of the humanity of the Meffiah, wha fpake of the temple of his body, when he laid, " Deftroy this temple, and in three days I will raife it up*." But, without retuming what has been already hinted on this head, let us only further obfervc, that the temple...

...of his refurrection to the Jews at large. When they required of him a fign from heaven, he faid to them, " Deftroy this temple, and in three days I will raife " it up again ;" and when they miftook his meaning, and and underftood it of the temple at Jerufalem, tha evangelift...