Ephesians 2:21

Ephesians 2:21

Christ Our Cornerstone

19 Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,

20 having been ^abuilt ^bon the foundation of the ^capostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being ^dthe chief cornerstone,

21 in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into ^aa holy temple in the Lord,

22 ^ain whom you also are being built together for a ^bdwelling place of God in the Spirit.

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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Each several building (pasa oikodomh). So without article Aleph B D G K L. Oikodomh is a late word from oikov and demw, to build for building up (edification) as in Ephesians 4:29, then for the building itself as here (Mark 13:1 f.). Ordinary Greek idiom here calls for "every building," not for "all the building" (Robertson, Grammar, p. 772), though it is not perfectly clear what that means. Each believer is called a naov qeou (I Corinthians 3:16). One may note the plural in Mark 13:1 (oikodomai) of the various parts of the temple. Perhaps that is the idea here without precise definition of each oikodomh. But there are examples of pav without the article where "all" is the idea as in pashv ktisewv (all creation) in Colossians 1:15.

Fitly framed together (sunarmologoumenh). Double compound from sun and armologov (binding, armov, joint and legw), apparently made by Paul and in N.T. only here and Ephesians 4:16. Architectural metaphor.

Into a holy temple (eiv naon agion). The whole structure with all the oikodomai. Another metaphor for the Kingdom of God with which compare Peter's "spiritual house" (oikov pneumatikov) in which each is a living stone being built in (I Peter 2:5).

**Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Ephesians 2:21:**

John 12:22
Acts 20:32
Ephesians 4:12
Ephesians 4:16
Colossians 1:18

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