...magnificent temple at Jerusalem : "But will God in very deed dwell with men on earth 1 Behold, the heaven, and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee ; how much less this house which I have built !" 2 Chron. 6 : 18. But it is a far greater wonder that God should dwell in a body...

...which he uttered at its dedication ! — " But will God indeed dwell on the earth ? Behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee ; how much less this house that I have builded !" 1 Kings viii. 27. Our idea of the temple must be, however, by no means limited to this small building,...

...furnish an excellent commentary upon the text. Will God. indeed dwell on the earth ? Behold, the heaven, and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee ; how much less this house which I have buildcd ? Yet have thou /,,',,.,* , . respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his...

...dwelling-place;' «nd in one part of it, addresses the Deity in these sublime terms; ' Behold, the heaven, and the heaven of heavens, cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded.' " p. 28. " They," the Christian readers of the Old t estamenr, " find it quite simple that the Triuue...

...superlatively raised above all Beings! Behold! the whole immensity of space, nay the very " Heaven, and Heaven of Heavens, cannot contain thee; how much less this House that I have builded?" Yet, though in a literal and local sense, thou wilt not be confined hjre, we know that thou wilt nevertheless...

...spakest unto thy servant David my father. But will God indeed dwell on the earth ? Behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee ; how much less this house that I have builded ? Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, -and to his supplication, O Lord my God, to...

...vouchsafing them 27 the tokens of Ais presence. But will God indeed dwell on the earth ? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee ; how much less this house that I have builcled ? acknowledging that God was infinite and immense, lest the profile should imagine that Jehovah...

...spakest unto thy servant David my father. 27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth ! behold, the heaven, and heaven of heavens, cannot contain thee ; how much less this house that I have builded : 28 Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LoV n my God,...

...are not consumed. i 1 Kings viii. 27. But will God indeed dwell on the earth ? Behold, the heaven, and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee, how much less this house that I have builded? Jer. xxiii. 23. Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Ver. 24. Can any hide himself...

...furnish an excellent commentary upon the text. Will God in* deed dwell on the earth ? Behold the heaven, and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee ; how much less this house which I hate buildedf Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication,...