What? know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have of God, and you are not your own?
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Ambrosiaster
AD 400
Paul said this with the intention that we should keep our bodies uncontaminated, so that the Holy Spirit may dwell in them. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.
The body and heart in which our Lord dwells—also because the Spirit resides there—is in truth a temple and an altar, seeing that our Lord resides there.
Your fastings and prayers and perpetual watching, together with your other good works, mortify the works of the flesh by the power of the Holy Spirit. He who acts thus "is a temple of the Holy Spirit of God."
Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost? They, therefore, who pollute their bodies by impurity are guilty of sacrilege, for they sin against the Holy Ghost. They do Him wrong by robbing Him of the body dedicated to Him, and120 transferring it to the demon of lust. Further, the bodies of the faithful are the temple of the Spirit of Christ, because they themselves are members of Christ, and because the faithful are one spirit with God. (See notes to vers16 , 17 , and 2 Corinthians 6:16. ) Tertullian cleverly and beautifully says (de Cultu Femin. c. i.) that the guardian and high-priestess of this temple is chastity. He says: "Since we are all the temple of God, because endowed and consecrated with the Holy Spirit, the guardian and high-priestess of His temple is chastity, who suffers nothing unclean, nothing unholy to be carried in, lest God, who inhabits it, be offended, and leave His polluted shrine." The faithful and just is therefore a temple in which by grace dwe...
There is nothing which is hid from God, but our very secrets are near to Him. Let us therefore do all things as those who have Him dwelling in us, that we may be His temples.
3. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you? He did not merely say, of the Spirit, but, which is in you; which was the part of one who also was soothing. And again, explaining himself still further, he added, which you have from God. He mentioned Him that gave also, both exalting the hearer and putting him in fear, both by the magnitude of the deposit, and by the munificence of Him that made it.
And you are not your own. This is not only to abash, but even to force men towards virtue. For why, says he; doest thou what you will? You are not your own master. But these things he said, not to take away free-will. For so in saying, All things are lawful for me, but not all things are expedient, he does not take away our liberty. And here again, writing, You are not your own; he makes no infringement upon freedom of choice, but he leads away from vice and indicates the guardian care of the Lord. And therefore he added, For you were bought with a price.
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But in the apostle's it is "the temple of God".
(in) us of the Holy Spirit, we are all "the temple of God".
So far as I know, "we are not our own, but bought with a price; ".
Of "temple of God".
"glorify and extol the Lord in your body."
