Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Cyprian/The Treatises of Cyprian/Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews/Book I/Part 15

15.&#160; That Christ should be the house and temple of God, and that the old temple should cease, and the new one should begin.

In the second book of Kings: &#8220;And the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying, Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the Lord, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in; but it shall be, when thy days shall be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall come from thy bowels, and I will make ready his kingdom. He shall build me an house in my name, and I will raise up his throne for ever; and I will be to him for a father, and he shall be to me for a son: and his house shall obtain confidence, and his kingdom for evermore in my sight.&#8221; Also in the Gospel the Lord says: &#8220;There shall not be left in the temple one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down.&#8221; And &#8220;After three days another shall be raised up without hands.&#8221;