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Isidore of Pelusium

5th Century, Egypt
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Eastern Christian, Oriental Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox
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Commemorated, Ascetic, Eastern Orthodox Saint, Early Church Father, Preacher, Oriental Orthodox Saint
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    In Buildings, Corruption, Ecclesiology, Faith, Greviances, Heresy, Peace, Philosophy, Piety, Rhetoric, Righteousness, Simony, Sin, The Cross, Virtue, Wealth, Wisdom



    It is true, he is busy about the building of the temple, but at the same time he is despoiling it of its great ornament, by expelling from it zealous and serious men. No one is ignorant of the pains he takes to decorate the building with variegated marble: but if he well understood that the church is one thing, and the structure of the church another, that the one is composed of holy and harmless spirits, while wood and stone are the materials of the other, I think he would desist from his hostility to the one, while he is bestowing superfluous ornament on the other.

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