Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
1 Corinthians 12:18
Hath God set the members ... - God has formed the body, with its various members, as he saw would best conduce to the harmony and usefulness of all.
Hath God set the members ... - God has formed the body, with its various members, as he saw would best conduce to the harmony and usefulness of 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...
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...
HATH. Omit. SET. Same word us "ordain" in John 15:16. EVERY. each. AS IT HATH, &C. = as He pleased, or purposed. App-102. Compare 1 Corinthians 15:38....
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...
_But now hath God set_ Literally, BUT NOW (that is, _as the case stands_) GOD PLACED, i.e. at creation. _as it hath pleased him_ Literally, AS HE WILLED. See last note. St Paul would have us draw the...
ΝΥΝῚ ΔῈ Ὁ ΘΕῸΣ ἜΘΕΤΟ. BUT NOW (that is, _as the case stands_) GOD PLACED, i.e. at creation. Ἓ ἝΚΑΣΤΟΝ ΑΥ̓ΤΩ͂Ν. _Every one of them_, A.V. Rather, EACH ONE OF THEM. In later English _every one_ has bec...
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...
ΝΥΝΊ ΔΈ но теперь, но, но на самом деле (RP). ΈΘΕΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΤΊΘΗΜΙ (G5087) ставить, класть, организовывать (Kistemaker; BAGD). ΈΝ ΈΚΑΣΤΟΝ (G1520; G1538) каждый, ΉΘΈΛΗΣΕΝ _aor. in...
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...
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...
But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. NOW - as the case really is. EVERY ONE - each severally....
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...
12:18 set (c-5) Mid. voice; as LXX, Genesis 1:17 , 'set for himself.' see Note e, Hebrews 1:3 ....
_(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...
“But now (argumentative νῦν, ‘as things are': see 1 Corinthians 5:11) God has appointed the members, each single one of them, in the body as He willed.” It is _God's will_ that has ranged the physical...
§ 40. THE ONE BODY, OF MANY MEMBERS. The manifold graces, ministries, workings (1 Corinthians 12:4 ff.), that proceed from the action of the Holy Spirit in the Christian community, stand not only in c...
MANY MEMBERS IN ONE BODY 1 Corinthians 12:12 The use of gifts must never be dictated by personal ambition or the desire for selfish gain. As every member of the physical body is united to the head by...
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...
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...
“But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased Him. 19. But if they were all one member, where were the body? 20. But now are there many members and one body.” Th...
(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...
_CHRUCH REFORM_ ‘But now hath God set the members each one of them in the body, even as it pleased Him.’ 1 Corinthians 12:18 (R. V.) What is meant by Church Reform? This has nothing to do with pres...
18._But now God hath placed. _Here we have another argument, taken from the appointment of God. “It has pleased God, that the body should consist of various members, and that the members should be end...
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...
BUT NOW HATH GOD SET THE MEMBERS,.... The members of a natural body, as they are all made and fashioned by God in the form they be, so they are each of them set by him in the place they are: EVERYONE...
But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. Ver. 18. _God hath set, &c._] And he, as only wise, doth all in number, weight, and measure. Shall we not rest...
_For the body is not one member, but many_ All of which are necessary, that the various sorts of offices belonging to the body may be all performed: thus there must be different gifts and offices in t...
As God assigns to Christians their talents and opportunities, their condition and measure of influence, as will best promote his glory and the good of his kingdom, there is not more reason for strife...
The body of Christ and its members:...
BUT NOW HATH GOD SET THE MEMBERS, EVERY ONE OF THEM, IN THE BODY AS IT HATH PLEASED HIM. The fact that the Spirit of God works in the Church through manifold gifts of grace, in various persons, and ye...
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...
BUT NOW HATH GOD SET THE MEMBERS EACH ONE OF THEM IN THE BODY, EVEN AS IT PLEASED HIM. 'But now' -'But as it is' (RSV); 'But as things are, in contrast to that absurdity.' (Robertson p. 172) 'HATH...
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...
The infinitely wise God, who hath made the body of man, and ordered all the members of the body for several uses and offices, either for the upholding or accommodating the life of man, hath likewise a...
But now [(as things actually are)]_ hath God set the members each one of them in the body, even as it pleased him_....
Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes But from this we are able to show that there is a unison of powers in these two substances, that is to say, in that of the body and in that...
1 Corinthians 12:18 But G1161 now G3570 God G2316 set G5087 (G5639) members G3196 each G1538 one...
'But now has God set the members each one of them in the body, even as it pleased him.' And each member is set in the body by God as they are needed, and in accordance with His good pleasure, so that...
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 12:18. BUT NOW AS THE CASE STANDS HATH GOD SET THE MEMBERS... EVEN AS IT HATH PLEASED HIM each in his own place, each with his own function, and all of the Lord's sovereign arrangement f...
BUT NOW (νυν δε). But as things are, in contrast to that absurdity.HATH GOD SET (ο θεος εθετο). Second aorist middle indicative. God did it and of himself.EVEN AS IT PLEASED HIM (καθως ηθελησεν...
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...
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...
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...
GOD PUT EVERY DIFFERENT PART. In both the human body and the Church, God assigns function to each part for the good of the whole....
FOR BY ONE SPIRIT WE ARE ALL BAPTIZED INTO ONE BODY. OF UNION WITH CHRIST Consider-- I. How Christ’s redemption is applied to a sinner. By uniting the sinner to Christ (1 Corinthians 1:30). Men must...
_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...
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 Corinthians 12:11; 1 Corinthians 12:24; 1 Corinthians 12:28; 1 Corinthians 15:38;...
Set [ε θ ε τ ο]. See on John 14:16, where the same word is used by Christ of appointing His followers....
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
As it hath pleased him — With the most exquisite wisdom and goodness....
As if the apostle had said, Whereas our wise Creator, who made the body of man, has appointed all the members of that body for divers uses and offices, and also appointed the order in which every memb...