God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands;
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed anything— do you observe how, little by little, he brings in the philosophy? How he ridicules the heathen error? seeing it is He that gives to all life, and breath, and all things; and has made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth. This is peculiar to God. Look, then, whether these things may not be predicated of the Son also. Being Lord, he says, of heaven and earth— which they accounted to be God's. Both the creation he declares to be His work, and mankind also. Having determined, he says, the times assigned to them, and the bounds of their habitation,
