But you let her make fools of the whole temple guard.

During the few seconds of this action, the temple guards had continued advancing, and were now almost upon him.

"I am glad that you are back again on the temple guard."

He hoped his guess was right about those temple guards not being built or trained for running.

The temple guards threw down their weapons and ran after.

The less direct "you have a guard" leaves open that they could be temple guards.

"Perhaps a year or two of service in our temple guard?"

These men would not be pushovers like the temple guard.

Without his patronage, I would be pushed to get a post as a temple guard!

Or does he mean, 'You've got your own temple guards; use them'?