Commentary Critical and Explanatory
1 Corinthians 12:21
And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. The higher cannot dispense with the lower.
And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. The higher cannot dispense with the lower.
Verse 21. _AND THE EYE CANNOT SAY UNTO THE HAND, I HAVE NO NEED_ _OF THEE_] The apostle goes on, with his principal object in view, to show that the gifts and graces with which their different teache...
AND THE EYE CANNOT SAY UNTO THE HAND ... - The hand in its place is as needful as the eye; and the feet as the head. Nay, the eye and the head could not perform their appropriate functions, or would b...
2. THE BODY AND THE MEMBERS OF THE BODY CHAPTER 12 _ 1. Concerning spiritual manifestations and diversities of gifts. (1 Corinthians 12:1 .)_ 2. The Body and its members. (1 Corinthians 12:12 .) In...
Paul now elaborates an illustration from the body and its members. Here we have organic unity with diversity of function and interdependence of the whole and its parts, interdependence also of the par...
THE CONFESSION OF THE SPIRIT (1 Corinthians 12:1-3)...
Just as the body is one, although it has many members, and just as all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ. For by the one Spirit we have all been baptized i...
CANNOT. is not (Greek. _ou)_ able to. UNTO. to. NO. App-105....
Comparison of the Unity of the Body and the Unity of the Christian Church 12. _For as the body is one, and hath many members_ This simile is a very common one. It is used on several occasions by the A...
COMPARISON OF THE UNITY OF THE BODY AND THE UNITY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH...
_MANY DIVERSE MEMBERS UNITED 1 CORINTHIANS 12:15-26:_ There is nothing more diverse and nothing more united than the body. The imaginary conversations between the various parts of the body make this p...
ΕΙΠΕΊΝ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) говорить. _Inf._ как дополнение основного гл. ΣΟΥ _gen. sing. от_ ΣΎ (G4816) ты. _Gen._ с именем ΧΡΕΊΑ (G5532), "нуждаться в тебе"....
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Maintaining the Unity of the Church_ (12-31) _Text_ 1 Corinthians 12:12-31. For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Sagaciousness of Diversity (1 Corinthians 12:12-26) 12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so i...
13 The body of Jesus, or of the Lord, denotes His physical frame. The body of Christ, however, is quite a distinct thought. Christ, or the Anointed, is a title rather than a name. It suggests official...
I HAVE NO NEED OF THEE] a rebuke to those who despised those not possessing _their_ gifts....
_(E) SPIRITUAL GIFTS_ In the early Church various powers, faculties, and graces were bestowed on individual Christians by the Holy Spirit. Some of these were distinctly miraculous, such as prophecy, t...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 12 *SPIRITUAL GIFTS 12:1-31 1. JESUS IS *LORD 12:1-3 V1 Now about the *Holy Spirit’s gifts, *brothers and *sisters, I do not want to leav...
CHAPTER 18 CONCERNING SPIRITUAL GIFTS This Epistle is well fitted to disabuse our minds of the idea that the primitive Church was in all respects superior to the Church of our own day. We turn page a...
1 Corinthians 12:21-31 _a_. § 41. THE MUTUAL DEPENDENCE OF THE BODY'S MEMBERS. Multiformity, it has been shown, is of the essence of organic life. But the variously endowed members, being needful to t...
personifies again the physical members, in the fashion of 1 Corinthians 12:15 f.: there the inferior disparaged itself as though it were no part of the body at all; here the superior disparages its fe...
EACH CONTRIBUTING HIS PART 1 Corinthians 12:20 The hand and the foot obviously stand in need of each other; but the same interdependence marks the feebler and humbler parts of our frame. Indeed, it w...
Now the apostle turned from the corrective section of his letter to the constructive as he proceeded to deal with the spiritualities which negative the carnalities. These are those of the unifying Spi...
The Need For Different Members God put different members in the body to perform specific functions. If all were the same part, even the most important, they would not have made up a body. Different me...
(12) And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. (12) Now on the other hand, he speaks to those who were endued with more excel...
“But the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. 22. Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are ne...
The object of this exposition is manifest. The Corinthians were disposed to exaggerate the value of certain gifts, which, from their extraordinary character, were fitted to strike the senses, in parti...
(12) For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. (13) For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
21._And the eye cannot say to the hand _Hitherto he has been showing, what is the office of the less honorable members — to discharge their duty to the body, and not envy the more distinguished member...
The other branch of the truth, in reference to the assembly of God in general and to the assemblies, is the presence and the gifts of the Holy Ghost. These, as well as the Lord's supper, are in connec...
AND THE EYE CANNOT SAY UNTO THE HAND,.... Every member of the natural body is useful and necessary. The eye, the seat of the sense of seeing, cannot say to the communicating and working hand, I HAVE...
And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. Ver. 21. _The eye cannot say, &c._] Superiors may not slight their inferiors, sinc...
_And the eye_ In its commanding station, and possessed as it is of light and discernment; _cannot say to the hand_ Endowed with neither of these qualities, and the mere instrument of action; _I have n...
AND THE EYE CANNOT SAY UNTO THE HAND, I HAVE NO NEED OF THEE; NOR AGAIN THE HEAD TO THE FEET, I HAVE NO NEED OF YOU....
The need of all the members:...
The Lord's supper has been first considered, being the most important of all gatherings, because it is for the united expression of the affections of the saints toward Him. Now ministry toward the sai...
AND THE EYE CANNOT SAY TO THE HAND,. HAVE NO NEED OF THEE: OR AGAIN THE HEAD TO THE FEET,. HAVE NO NEED OF YOU. Paul's argument in the previous verses dealt with the member who wanted to be the eye....
12-26 Christ and his church form one body, as Head and members. Christians become members of this body by baptism. The outward rite is of Divine institution; it is a sign of the new birth, and is cal...
He names two of the most noble and useful members of the body, _the head and the eye, _ which yet cannot tell the hands or the feet they have no need of them: the wise God having created nothing in va...
And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. [The interdependence of the members is here shown. If, as we have seen above, the humb...
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'But now they are many members, but one body. And the eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you", or again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you". So the body being made up of many dif...
SPIRITUAL GIFTS FOR THE WELL-BEING OF CHRIST AND HIS BODY (12:1-14:33). Paul now begins his reply to their question about spiritual gifts ('concerning spiritual things') and immediately gives an initi...
1 Corinthians 12:19-21 . AND IF THEY WERE ALL ONE MEMBER, etc. As in 1 Corinthians 12:15-16, the rebuke seems to be for _envying_ the gifts of the more eminent, so here the rebuke is addressed to the...
CANNOT SAY (ου δυνατα ειπειν). And be truthful. The superior organs need the inferior ones (the eye, the hand, the head, the feet)....
1 Corinthians 12:1. _Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led._ Although the mem...
1 Corinthians 12:12. _For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one b...
CONTENTS: Spiritual gifts in the Body of Christ, for ministry and worship. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: The Body of Christ in the world is for the service for, and manifesta...
1 Corinthians 12:1. _Now concerning spiritual gifts,_ and gifts promised to old men, to young men, and to handmaids, according to Joel 2:28, I would now speak, in the third part of this epistle, and a...
SO THEN! The hands need the guidance of the eye, and the eye needs the help of the hands. Every member of the _body_ has his or her place and is _needed_ by every other member of the body. And it is a...
_Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant._ SPIRITUAL GIFTS The particular gifts to which St. Paul was referring were not exactly as a whole like anything that is to be...
_But now are they many members, yet but one body._ THE MEMBERS OF THE BODY OF CHRIST I. Their unity. “One body.” II. Their diversity. The eye, the hand, etc. III. Mutual dependence. IV. Admirable...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 12:1 Some Corinthian Christians seem to have been creating divisions over spiritual gifts. Paul’s use of the body analogy in 1 Corinthians 12
CHAPTER 12 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER In this and the two following Chapter s S. Paul discusses Christian gifts and graces. In this chapter he points out I. That gifts are variously distributed by the...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 1 Corinthians 12:1.—GIFTS is a translators’ supplement; right in fact, as 1 Corinthians 12:4 show; slightly too precise in word. Almost certainly _neuter_, and so very general, “_spir...
EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 12:1.—1 Corinthians 14:1.—ON SPIRITUAL GIFTS, AND THE DANGER WHICH AROSE FROM THE
Now concerning the spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you be ignorant (1 Corinthians 12:1). An interesting statement of Paul, because I think that in the church one of the areas where the gre...
1 Samuel 25:32; Ezra 10:1; Job 29:11; Nehemiah 4:16; Numbers 10:31;...
CONCERNING SPIRITUAL GIFTS 1 Corinthians 12:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. A contrast between the spiritual and the carnal in Abram and Lot (Genesis 18:1 and Genesis 19:1). 2. A contrast between
Nor the head — The highest part of all. To the foot — The very lowest....