Matthew Poole and continuators on Ephesians 2:21

21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy Temple in the Lord .

Or upon whom, viz. Christ the Foundation.

Whatsoever is built on Christ the Foundation, and so all particular Believers as the several parts of the building.

Joined and united both to Christ the Foundation by Faith, and to each other by love.

Either 1. ariseth; the building goeth on till it come to be a Temple. Or 2. it notes the Stones or Materials of the House to be living ones, receiving life from Christ, 1 Pet. 2.5. Growth supposeth life. The Verb is in the Present Tense, to signifie that the Builders are still at work, and this Temple nor yet finished.

In allusion to the Temple at Ierusalem, whereas the Holy of Holies was a Type of Heaven, so the Temple it self was a Type of the Church, both as it was the place of God's Presence, and of his Worship.

Either this must be joined to groweth, and then it is a Pleonasm, the Antecedent being here repeated, though the Relative had been expressed, and it implies the Growth of Believers (the materials of this spiritual building) to be from Christ. Or it may be joined with Holy, and then it signifies that they have their Holiness from Christ, or it may be read Holy to the Lord, and then it expresses the nature of this Temple, that it is undefiled, consecrated to the Lord, and meet for him.

Marginal references: Chap. 4.16. 1 Cor. 3.17. & 6.19.; 2 Cor. 6.16.