“In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.”
And in him you too are being built together into a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit — the 'you also' (kai hymeis) are being synek ('built together') as katoikēterion ('dwelling place') of God through the pneuma ('Spirit'), reversing the ancient tabernacle imagery: believers themselves are now the temple of God's presence, the eschatalogical fulfillment of indwelling.
Church Fathers on Ephesians 2:22
He sent not, says the Apostle, by the hand of another, nor did He announce these tidings to us by means of any other, but Himself did it in His own person. He sent not Angel nor Archangel on the mission, because to repair so many and vast mischiefs and to declare what had been wrought was in the power of none other, but required His own coming. The Lord then took upon Himself the rank of a servant, nay, almost of a minister, “and came, and preached peace to you,” says he,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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