Matthew Poole and continuators on John 2:21

21 But he spake of the temple of his body .

But alas, our Saviour spake not of their material Temple, but of the Temple of his Body, which yet was proper speaking; for if the Apostle calleth our Bodies the Temple of God, as he doth, 1 Cor. 3.16. and 6.19. 2 Cor. 6.16. It much more may be said so of the Body of Christ; for as God dwelt in the Temple, and there revealed his Will, and would be there Worshipped; how properly must the Notion of the Temple agree to Christ, in whom the fulness of the Godhead dwelt bodily? Col. 2.9. who revealeth his Fathers nature and will to men, Matth. 11.27. and in whom all must worship him? So as the Temple at H[illegible: 1 letter]erusalem was every way a most Illustrious Type of Christ, and Christ might well, speaking concerning his Body, say, destroy this Temple; and thus Christ (would these blind Iews have seen it) drew off the Iews from glorying in their Temple, Ier. 7.4. and from the Temple, which was but a Type, (as the Tabernacle was before, Acts 7.47. Heb. 9.23, 24.) to himself, prefigurated by those houses, Heb. 9.11. Nor doth he think fit as this time to speak more plainly; for as he knew, that the perverse Iews, in seeing, would not see, nor bear any such Doctrine; so he also knew, that his better Disciples were as yet weak in Faith; and none putteth new Wine into old Bottles.