But above all, we ought to marvel at the reality of which Paul is speaking: the reality of the living God coming to dwell not just among us but within us. The ancient promises of YHWH’s return to Zion, and the rebuilding of the Temple, are coming true not ‘in heaven’, as the older allegorical exegesis would have it, but in the new creation. And the new creation, which will involve as we shall presently see the renewal of the entire creation, and also the personal bodily resurrection which we are promised, includes also the anticipation of that resurrection in the present moral life, the
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