Significados de temporal object en inglés

Are we tempted to neglect the worship of God for some temporal object?

Reason alone will not enable us to perceive the special, the universal or the eternal in a particular, temporal object.

This indeed is but a temporal object, and a transitory possession; but so are other things in themselves which we make much of and pursue.

Therefore the image of the Trinity is to be found in the soul, even as regards temporal objects.

If we have used our best endeavors to attain success in the pursuit of temporal objects, we are not responsible though we fail.