In Book 1.1 of his On the Temple, Bede (d. 735) understands Eph 2:20 to be teaching that the foundation of the Church is both the prophets and apostles and the person of Jesus; not either-or:
. . . it is quite clear that the
material temple was a figure of us all, that is, both of the Lord himself and
his members which we are. But (it was a figure) of him as the uniquely chosen
and precious cornerstone laid on the foundation, and of us as the living stones
built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, i.e. on the Lord
himself. (Bede: On the Temple [trans. Seán Connolly; Translated Texts
for Historians; Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1995], 5-6)
