The First Epistle of Clement Concerning Virginity
And they hearken not to that which the Scripture has said: "Let not many be teachers among you, my brethren, and be not all of you prophets."[98]
Verse 29. _ARE ALL APOSTLES_, c.] That is: All are _not_ apostles, all are not _prophets_, c. God has distributed his various gifts among various persons, each of whom is necessary for the complete ed...
ARE ALL APOSTLES? ... - These questions imply, with strong emphasis, that it could not be, and ought not to be, that there should be perfect equality of endowment. It was not a matter of fact that all...
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...
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...
THE CONFESSION OF THE SPIRIT (1 Corinthians 12:1-3)...
_ ARE_. All these seven questions are introduced by _me_ (App-105). WORKERS OF. There is no word for "workers". Figure of speech _Ellipsis._ App-6....
_Are all apostles?_ The common priesthood of every Christian (1 Peter 2:5; 1 Peter 2:9) no more precludes the existence of special offices of authority in the Christian Church than the common priestho...
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...
ΜῊ ΠΆΝΤΕΣ�; The common priesthood of every Christian (1 Peter 2:5; 1 Peter 2:9) no more precludes the existence of special offices of authority in the Christian Church than the common priesthood of th...
_MEMBERS THAT LOVE ONE ANOTHER 1 CORINTHIANS 12:27-31:_ In the close of this chapter we will see the application Paul made concerning the spiritual gifts given in the one body. The church is composed...
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ARE ALL APOSTLES?— It appears that this invidious temper was not extirpated from among the Corinthians, even by this just and lively expostulation: for Clemens Romanus, writing to them many years afte...
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 Singleness in Diversity (1 Corinthians 12:27-31) 27 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. 28And God has appointed in the church first apostles, s...
Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles? ARE ALL ... ? Surely not....
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...
_(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...
In this string of rhetorical questions P. recapitulates once more the charisms, in the terms of 1 Corinthians 12:28. He adds now to the γλώσσαις λαλεῖν its complementary διερμηνεύειν (see 10, and 1 Co...
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...
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...
Division Is Undesirable Clearly, the facts Paul presented proved God created the body in such a way that division is undesirable. Every member of the physical body feels for the other members. If one...
“Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all powers? 30. Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?” God has given to believers a certain spiritual e...
(27) Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. (28) And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of heal...
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...
29._Are all Apostles _? It may indeed have happened, that one individual was endowed with many gifts, and sustained two of the offices which he has enumerated; nor was there in this any inconsistency....
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...
ARE ALL APOSTLES?.... No some are prophets, as distinct from apostles; and some are teachers, as distinct from them both, and some are neither: ARE ALL PROPHETS? no; some are apostles, above them, an...
_Are_ all apostles? _are_ all prophets? _are_ all teachers? _are_ all workers of miracles? Ver. 29. _Are all teachers?_] Yes, some would have it so, as in Alcibiades' army all were leaders, no learne...
_And God hath set in the church first apostles_ Who planted the gospel in the heathen nations, being honoured with an office of the highest distinction, and furnished with endowments peculiar to thems...
These were different offices which God established in the churches at first; referred to in verse 1 Corinthians 12:5. APOSTLES; men who had seen Christ after his resurrection, and were commissioned by...
The spiritual meaning of the comparison:...
ARE ALL APOSTLES? ARE ALL PROPHETS? ARE ALL TEACHERS? ARE ALL WORKERS OF MIRACLES?...
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...
WORKERS: Or, powers...
ARE ALL APOSTLES? ARE ALL PROPHETS? ARE ALL TEACHERS? ARE ALL WORKERS OF MIRACLES?...
27-31 Contempt, hatred, envy, and strife, are very unnatural in Christians. It is like the members of the same body being without concern for one another, or quarrelling with each other. The proud, c...
Ver. 29,30. That is, all are not, nor can be, any more than all the body can be an ear, or an eye, or a hand, or a foot: you cannot expect, that in a governed body all should be governors; and you see...
Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?...
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'Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles? Have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?' The questions are a reminder of their inte...
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 12:29-30. ARE ALL APOSTLES, etc. If not, then why suppose that all possess and were intended to exercise every gift, or imagine that this would benefit the Church?...
ARE ALL (μη παντες). The μη expects a negative answer with each group....
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...
THEY ARE NOT ALL. Paul once again shows the wide variety of abilities, and the fact that each has his own special part to play in the _body._...
_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...
_And God hath set some in the Church, first apostles._ HELP-WORK The words which I have taken as my text occupy, you will remember, a somewhat exceptional position. They occur in the midst of what se...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 12:29 ARE ALL APOSTLES? The answer is obviously no. Paul also expects the reader to answer no to all of the following questions....
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...
_Are all apostles?_ Certainly not. Let each, therefore, be content with the position in which God has placed him in the Church, and with the grace that he has freely received from God, and thank God f...
_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 Corinthians 12:14; 1 Corinthians 12:4...
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
The force of the apostle's argument lies thus: As the natural body, to which he had before alluded, cannot be all eye, nor all ear, nor all hand, nor all foot; in like manner in the mystical body, the...