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FOR OUR COMELY PARTS - The face, etc. “Have no need.” No need of
clothing or ornament.
BUT GOD HATH TEMPERED THE BODY TOGETHER - Literally, “mingled” or
mixed; that is, has made to coalesce, or strict...
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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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COMELY. Greek. _euschemon._ See Acts 13:50.
HATH. Omit.
TEMPERED... TOGETHER. mingled together, or compounded. Greek.
_sunkerannumi._ Only here and Hebrews 4:2.
LACKED. came short. Greek. _hustereo....
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_tempered_ So Wiclif. _Disposed_, Tyndale. _Temperavit_, Vulgate.
Literally, MINGLED TOGETHER....
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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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ὙΣΤΕΡΟΥΜΈΝΩΙ אABC. ὑστεροῦντι DEFG.
24. ΣΥΝΕΚΈΡΑΣΕΝ. Literally, _mingled together_.
ὙΣΤΕΡΟΥΜΈΝΩΙ, which COMES SHORT of any other....
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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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ΕΥΣΧΉΜΩΝ (G2157) приличный,
ΣΥΝΕΚΈΡΑΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΣΥΝΚΕΡΆΝΝΥΜΙ
(G4786) смешивать, мешать. Бог "смешал"
части тела, чтобы они работали в
согласии (Grosheide).
ΎΣΤΕΡΟΥΜΈΝΦ _praes. med._/ _pa...
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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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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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For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body
together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:
TEMPERED ... TOGETHER - by mutual compensation.
TO THAT P...
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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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NO NEED] of clothing.
TEMPERED.. TOGETHER] wrought all into harmony. GIVEN MORE ABUNDANT
HONOUR] by implanting in men the instinct of 1 Corinthians 12:23....
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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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FOR OUR COMELY PARTS HAVE NO NEED. — These words (better, _and our
comely parts have no need_) conclude the former verse. The words,
“But God hath tempered,” commence a new sentence, in which the
natu...
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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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1 Corinthians 12:22-24 _a_. “On the contrary” (ἀλλά), instead
of the more powerful and dignified (1 Corinthians 12:23) bodily parts
dispensing with the humbler (1 Corinthians 12:21),
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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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Cicero, in his 1st liber de Off. speaking of the human body, says,
Natura quæ formam nostram atque figuram, in qua esset species
honesta, eam posuit in promptu; quæ partes autem corporis ad naturæ
nec...
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But, as to functions which of themselves honour those who fill them,
there is nothing to add to this intrinsic honour. They resemble the
beautiful parts of the body, which would be wronged were they c...
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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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(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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24._But God hath tempered the body together _He again repeats, what he
had stated once before, (1 Corinthians 12:18,) but more explicitly,
— that God has appointed this symmetry, and that with a view...
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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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FOR OUR COMELY PARTS HAVE NO NEED,.... As the face, eyes, nose, lips,
cheeks, c. which stand in no need of an external covering, of any
outward ornament: so such as are blessed with the bounties of na...
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For our comely _parts_ have no need: but God hath tempered the body
together, having given more abundant honour to that _part_ which
lacked:
Ver. 24. _For our comely parts_] A fair face needs no dres...
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_For our comely_ and graceful _parts have no need_ Of being so
adorned, as they appear to greater advantage uncovered; _but God hath
tempered the body together_ Συνεκερασε, hath attempered and
united...
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ARE NECESSARY; the strongest and most prominent members of the body
are not in all cases the most essential to human life, but often those
which are more feeble and concealed. Those parts which need i...
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The application of the figure:...
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FOR OUR COMELY PARTS HAVE NO NEED; BUT GOD HATH, TEMPERED THE BODY
TOGETHER, HAVING GIVEN MORE ABUNDANT HONOR TO THAT PART WHICH LACKED,...
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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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WHEREAS OUR COMELY PARTS HAVE NO NEED: BUT GOD TEMPERED THE BODY
TOGETHER, GIVING MORE ABUNDANT HONOR TO THAT PART WHICH LACKED;
'comely parts have no need' -'while the more decorous parts (e.g., th...
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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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God hath, in the wisdom of his providence, so ordered it, that as we
have some parts of our body which are judged uncomely, and not for
those noble uses that others are; so we have other parts that ar...
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whereas our comely parts have no need: but God tempered the body
together, giving more abundant honor to that part which lacked;...
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1 Corinthians 12:24 but G1161 our G2257 presentable G2158 have G2192
(G5719) no G3756 need G5532 But...
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For God, in tempering (combining) the body together in Christ, has
given more abundant honour to those parts which were lacking, so that
all would be as one and there might be no schism, so that all m...
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'No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be more
feeble are necessary, and those parts of the body, which we think to
be less honourable, on these we bestow more abundant honour, and...
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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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1 Corinthians 12:24-26 . WHEREAS OUR COMELY PARTS HAVE NO NEED, etc.
The language, it will be observed, is studiously so framed as to apply
equally to the natural and the spiritual body....
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TEMPERED THE BODY TOGETHER
(συνεκερασεν το σωμα). First aorist active indicative
of συνκεραννυμ, to mix together, old word, but in N.T. only
here and Hebrews 4:2. Plato used this very word of the wa...
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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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WHICH THE MORE BEAUTIFUL PARTS. We beautify our bodies by covering up
certain parts and decorating others with items of clothing. But our
head, face, and hands don't need such coverings. The point is...
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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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_For our comely parts have no need._ The eyes, the face, and the
hands, which are the more comely parts of the body, lack no ornament,
but are comely enough in themselves.
_Having given more abundant...
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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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Genesis 2:25; Genesis 3:11...
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Tempered together [σ υ ν ε κ ρ α σ ε ν]. Only here and
Hebrews 4:2. Lit., mixed together. Here the idea of mutual adjustment
is added to that of mingling. Compare Plato on God's creating the soul
and...
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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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Giving more abundant honour to that which lacked — As being cared
for and served by the noblest parts....