Then they were dressed into form, and this required a great deal of cutting, hammering, and chiselling.
Without this stern, sore work on the stones, not one of them could ever have filled a place in the temple.

At last when they were ready they were lifted out of the dark quarry and carried up to the mountain-top, where the temple was rising, and were laid in their place.
We are stones in the quarry as yet.

When we accepted Christ we were cut from the great mass of rock.

But we were yet rough and unshapely; not fit for heaven.

Before we can be ready for our place in the heavenly temple we must be hewn and shaped.