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Ordinary Time · The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica · Year C

1 Corinthians 3:9c-11, 16-17

You Are God's Temple

November 9, 2028

Interior of St. Peter's, Rome, Giovanni Paolo Panini
Interior of St. Peter's, Rome, Giovanni Paolo Panini, 1735Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena
Panini specialised in vast interiors painted with exact perspective, and filled them with tourists and clerics to give the scale.Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? Paul says the building is the people, which this painting makes you argue with.Giovanni Paolo PaniniA Roman painter of ruins and vast interiors, who taught perspective and supplied souvenirs to Grand Tourists.Norton Simon Museum, PasadenaAn industrialist's collection in Pasadena, assembled in two decades of aggressive buying and left as a museum.Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena
Roman Lectionary
GospelJohn 2:13-22Jn 2:13-22
Second Reading1 Cor. 3:9c-11, 16-171 Cor 3:9c-11, 16-17
First ReadingEzek. 47:1-2, 8-9, 12Ez 47:1-2, 8-9, 12
Responsorial PsalmPs. 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9 (5)Ps 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9 (5)

Overview & Insights

"Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?" (1 Corinthians 3:16)

Paul calls the church God's field and God's building, with Jesus Christ as the one foundation that no one can replace. Because God's Spirit dwells among them, the community itself is a holy temple, and whoever destroys that temple will answer to God.

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Commentary

1 Corinthians 3 Commentary1 Cor 3 Commentary Enduring Word · David Guzik

Explains Christ as foundation and the church as God's temple.

1 Corinthians 3 Commentary1 Cor 3 Commentary Precept Austin

Word-study commentary on the temple imagery.

1 Corinthians 3 Commentaries1 Cor 3 Commentaries BibleHub

Aggregates classic commentaries verse by verse.

1 Corinthians 3 - Gill's Exposition1 Cor 3 - Gill's Exposition StudyLight

Older full exposition of the chapter.

Background & Word Study

1 Corinthians 3 Interlinear1 Cor 3 Interlinear BibleHub

Shows the Greek naos behind Paul's temple language.

Book of 1 Corinthians OverviewBook of 1 Cor Overview BibleProject

Animated overview covering this section's argument.

The Church Fathers

Catena on 1 Corinthians 3Catena on 1 Cor 3 Catena

Collects patristic comment on the church as God's temple.

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