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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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THE CONFESSION OF THE SPIRIT (1 Corinthians 12:1-3)...
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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...
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CANNOT. is not (Greek. _ou)_ able to.
UNTO. to.
NO. App-105....
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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...
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COMPARISON OF THE UNITY OF THE BODY AND THE UNITY OF THE CHRISTIAN
CHURCH...
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_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...
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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"....
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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_(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...
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I HAVE NO NEED OF THEE] a rebuke to those who despised those not
possessing _their_ gifts....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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“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...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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....
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The need of all the members:...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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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1 Corinthians 12:21 And G1161 eye G3788 cannot G3756 G1410 (G5736) say
G2036 (G5629) hand G5495 have
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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...
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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...
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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...
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CANNOT SAY
(ου δυνατα ειπειν). And be truthful. The superior organs
need the inferior ones (the eye, the hand, the head, the feet)....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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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
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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...
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_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...
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EXPOSITION
1 Corinthians 12:1.—1 Corinthians 14:1.—ON SPIRITUAL GIFTS, AND
THE DANGER WHICH AROSE FROM THE
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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...
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1 Samuel 25:32; Ezra 10:1; Job 29:11; Nehemiah 4:16; Numbers 10:31;...
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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
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Nor the head — The highest part of all. To the foot — The very
lowest....