“"Until the days of David," he says: even David, and no Temple! "And he sought to find favor before God": and built not:-so far was the Temple from being a great matter! David "desired to find favor:" and he builded not, he, the wonderful, the great; but the castaway, Solomon.”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — Homily on Acts 17
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46Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
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44Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.
45Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
— Acts 7:46 —
47But Solomon built him an house.
48Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,