Cleansing of the Temple

Saviour, who dost with anger see
The lusts which steal my heart from thee,
The thieves out of thy temple chase,
And plant thy Spirit in their place,
And when my God inhabits there,
My heart shall be thine house of prayer.

—Charles Wesley, from Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762)

Christ Driving the Money-changers from the Temple (1626), Rembrandt. Oil on Canvas, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts

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