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Each several building (pāsa oikodomē). So without article Aleph B D G K L. Oikodomē is a late word from oikos and demō, to build for building up (edification) as in Eph 4:29, then for the building itself as here (Mar 13:1.). 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 naos theou (1Co 3:16). One may note the plural in Mar 13:1 (oikodomai) of the various parts of the temple. Perhaps that is the idea here without precise definition of each oikodomē. But there are examples of pās without the article where “all” is the idea as in pāsēs ktiseōs (all creation) in Col 1:15.
Fitly framed together (sunarmologoumenē). Double compound from sun and harmologos (binding, harmos, joint and legō), apparently made by Paul and in N.T. only here and Eph 4:16. Architectural metaphor.
Into a holy temple (eis naon hagion). The whole structure with all the oikodomai. Another metaphor for the Kingdom of God with which compare Peter’s “spiritual house” (oikos pneumatikos) in which each is a living stone being built in (1Pe 2:5).