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CHAPTER XI
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Nay, it seems more fitting to dedicate a temple to It than to either of the other Persons of the Trinity, if we but carefully study the apostolic authority, and consider the workings of this Spirit Itself.

To none of the three Persons did the apostle dedicate a special temple save to the Holy Spirit alone.

He does not speak of a temple of the Father, or a temple of the Son, as he does of a temple of the Holy Spirit, writing thus in his first epistle to the Corinthians: "But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit." (I Cor.

vi, 17).

And again: "What?
know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own ?" (ib.


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