Solomon's Temple Spiritualized

John Bunyan was far from the first to find spiritual meaning in the structure and furniture of the Temple. Jewish rabbis and Christian church fathers alike indulged in sometimes extreme and fanciful interpretation of the Temple's symbolic nature. Here Bunyan confines himself to "those types exhibited in the temple and alluded to by the inspired writers of the New Testament" such as Christ as the cornerstone, the role of the individual believer as a "living stone," and the quality of materials used for the building.