But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an house for my name, because thou hast been a man of war, and hast shed blood.
Thou hast been a man of war, and hast shed blood. The Church, or spiritual state of the world, of which the temple at Jerusalem was to be a type, would be presided over by One who was to be pre-eminently the Prince of Peace, and therefore would be represented not so fifty by David, whose mission had been a preparatory one of battle and conquest, as by his son, who should reign in unbroken peace.