He thought it enough for him to set before his eyes,
and follow the pattern of the old Temple, which Solomon at the beginning
builded according as God had appointed him, and also those old customs
and ceremonies which God Himself had written out by special words for
Moses.
The prophet Aggaeus, after the temple was repaired again by Esdras, and
the people might think they had a very just cause to rejoice on their own
behalf for so great a benefit received of Almighty God, yet made he them
all burst out into tears, because that they which were yet alive and had
seen the former building of the Temple, before the Babylonians destroyed
it, called to mind how far off it was yet from that beauty and excellency
which it had in the old times past before. For then, indeed, would they
have thought the Temple worthily repaired if it had answered to the
ancient pattern and to the majesty of the first Temple. Paul, because he
would amend the abuse of the Lord's Supper, which the Corinthians even
then began to corrupt, he set before them Christ's institution to follow,
saying: "I have delivered unto you that which I first received of the
Lord.
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