159 Deut. 12:5; 1 Kings (LXX 3 Kingdoms) 8:29, etc.
155The passive participle of συναϱμολογέω (“fitted together”), used in the architectural figure here, is used in the biological figure in Eph. 4:16.
156In πᾶσα οỉϰοδομή the noun οιϰοδομή may denote the building process rather than the structure itself. See also p. 325, n. 80.
1571QS 8.5-6. See R. A. Cole, The New Temple (London, 1950); B. Gärtner, The Temple and the Community in Qumran and the New Testament (Cambridge, 1965), pp. 60-66; R. J. McKelvey, The New Temple: The Church in the New Testament (Oxford, 1969), pp. 108-23.
158There is little basis in the context for treating συνοιϰοδομεῖσθε as imperative (“be built together”); cf. 1 Pet. 2:5, οỉϰοδομεῖσθε οἶϰος πνευματιϰóς, which some wish to translate: “be built up (as) a spiritual house.”
159Deut. 12:5; 1 Kings (LXX 3 Kingdoms) 8:29, etc.
160Exod. 40:34-35; 1 Kings (LXX 3 Kingdoms) 8:11, etc.