'Has not my hand made all these things?' - the final question in the Isaiah quotation asserts God's absolute creative ownership of all things. If God made 'all these things' (panta ta presmata, all things), then God is not bound by or dependent upon any human creation. The hand of God (anthropomorphic image) made the cosmos; human hands cannot contain the divine. This question is decisive: it establishes that the temple is a human work, while God's work transcends human enterprise.

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