Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Ver. 16. Ye are the temple of God] Not God's building only, as1 Corinthians 3:9, but his temple. A mud wall may be made up of anything, not so the walls of a temple or palace, that must have other materials.
And that the Spirit of God, &c.] Next to the love of Christ indwelling in our nature, we may wonder at the love of the Holy Ghost, that will dwell in our defiled souls. (Dr Sibbs on Eph 4:30) Let our care be to wash the pavement of this temple with our tears, to sweep it by repentance, to beautify it with holiness, to perfume it with prayers, to deck it with humility, to hang it with sincerity. Delicata res est Spiritus Dei; A sumptuous person is the Spirit of God, the Holy Ghost will dwell in a poor, so it be a pure house. Religion loves to lie clean, as was a grave speech of an ancient saint.