in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
Christ is our peace because He broke down the wall of partition between Jews and Gentiles, the ceremonial law itself, by abolishing its binding power through His flesh. He formed one new church of believers from these two hostile parties, uniting them to Himself as their common head.
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Commenting on Ephesians 2:14-22
A particular church is a compact building of many parts joined together by agreement and cemented in love, designed for social worship where saints edify one another. Christ is the foundation and master builder; we are the materials; faith is the entrance. The end of all this building is that God the Father, Son, and Spirit may dwell there, which shows His grace and makes the church a safe and pleasant habitation for those within it.
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The Greek allows this to read as either command or statement, but the context suggests Paul exhorts the Ephesians to grow continually in Christ's faith and so form part of God's new temple, whose building through the Gospel proceeds everywhere. He repeats "through the Spirit" to remind us that human effort means nothing without the Spirit's work, and to show how far this spiritual building surpasses all Jewish outward services.
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