อิสยาห์ 66:1
Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?
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Study Note
The divine declaration — 'heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest?' — is the opening challenge of the book's final chapter, qualifying temple theology with prophetic transcendence. The image does not deny the temple's legitimacy but relativizes it: a God who fills heaven and earth cannot be contained in a human structure, making the attitude of worshipers more determinative than the building itself (verse 2). Stephen applies this text in his defense speech (Acts 7:49-50) as evidence that the temple always exceeded Jewish boundaries, anticipating the gospel's universalization of worship. The verse stands in the prophetic tradition's persistent qualification of institutional religion — not abolishing the temple but subordinating it to the God whose presence no structure can limit.
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