Geneva Study Bible Commentary
1 Corinthians 12:27
Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in (s) particular.
(s) For all churches, wherever they are dispersed through the whole world, are different members of one body.
Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in (s) particular.
(s) For all churches, wherever they are dispersed through the whole world, are different members of one body.
Verse 27. _NOW YE ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST_] The apostle, having finished his apologue, comes to his application. As the members in the human body, so the different members of the mystical body of Chr...
NOW YE - Ye Christians of Corinth, as a part of the whole church that has been redeemed. ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST - The allusion to the human body is here kept up. As all the members of the human body c...
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)...
THE BODY. There is no art. because _soma_ is the predicate. Compare 1 Corinthians 3:16. IN PARTICULAR. Greek. _ek_ (App-104.) _merous._ The meaning is "Each in his part", as Revised Version m....
_Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular_ We here return to the proposition of 1 Corinthians 12:12, rendered more definite and intelligible by what has since been said. The Apostle no...
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...
ὙΜΕΙ͂Σ ΔΈ ἘΣΤΕ ΣΩ͂ΜΑ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥ͂. We here return to the proposition of 1 Corinthians 12:12-13, rendered more definite and intelligible by what has since been said. The Apostle now says (1) that collectiv...
_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...
ΈΚ ΜΈΡΟΥΣ (G1537; G3313) от части. Здесь это выражение значит "индивидуально" (Barrett)....
NOW YE ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST.— Dr. Heylin renders this, _Thus ye are the body of Christ; each being a particular member, which God has placed in the church;_ (1 Corinthians 12:28.) _as, first, apostl...
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...
Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. MEMBERS IN PARTICULAR - i:e. severally members of it. Each church is in miniature what the whole aggregate of churches is collectively - ...
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...
YE ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST] true of individual Churches, as here; and of the Church universal (Ephesians 1:23). MEMBERS IN PARTICULAR] i.e. each in his place; RV 'severally members thereof.'...
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...
NOW. — We have here in general terms the application of the foregoing illustration, the detailed application of which follows in 1 Corinthians 12:28. The Apostles were those selected by our Lord Himse...
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...
The figure of _the body_, developed from 1 Corinthians 12:14-26 with deliberation and completeness, is now applied in detail to the Church, where the same solidarity of manifold parts and powers obtai...
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...
_Members of members. [2] The sense seems to be, you are members of the particular Church of Corinth, which is only a part or member of the whole boy of the Christian Catholic Church. This is agreeable...
“Now ye are a body of Christ, and members in particular.” This verse gives the reason why the parable of the human body may be applied to the readers. They are a _body of Christ_, not _the_ body of C...
(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...
27._But ye are the body of Christ _Hence what has been said respecting the nature and condition of the human body must be applied to us; for we are not a mere civil society, but, being ingrafted into...
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...
NOW YE ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST,.... Not his natural body, which his Father prepared for him, in which he bore our sins on the tree, and which was offered up once for all; nor his sacramental body, or t...
Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. Ver. 27. _Now ye are, &c._] St Cyprian's sympathy is remarkable, _Cum singulis pectus meum copulo, moeroris et funeris pondera luctuosa parti...
_Now ye_ Believers at Corinth; _are the body of Christ_ A part of it, not the whole body; _and members in particular_ That is, each believer is a particular member thereof, and ought to behave himself...
YE ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST; ye, the whole body of believers, constitute the one spiritual body of Christ. MEMBERS IN PARTICULAR; each individual is a member of Christ's body, having his particular off...
The spiritual meaning of the comparison:...
NOW YE ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST AND MEMBERS IN PARTICULAR....
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...
NOW YE ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST, AND SEVERALLY MEMBERS THEREOF. 'This sentence, which ties all the preceding pieces together, spells out what the Corinthians must have known right along, that the foreg...
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...
OLBGrk; Considering you in the whole as a church, so YE ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST: considering you particularly as individual believers, so ye are MEMBERS of Christ. Some think ek merouv signifies in par...
Now ye are the body of Christ, and severally members thereof. [The hands and face have no need of adornment, but the rest of the body, being less comely, is made beautiful with clothing, so that a sta...
Tertullian On Modesty " And, accordingly, why excuse it on the ground of pristine precedent? It did not bear the names of "body of Christ,"[75] Origen Commentary on John Book X on the foundation of...
1 Corinthians 12:27 Now G1161 you G5210 are G2075 (G5748) body G4983 Christ G5547 and G2532 members G3196
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...
'Now you (the 'you' is emphatic) are the body of Christ, and severally members of it. And God has set some in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then miracles, then gifts...
1 Corinthians 12:27. NOW YE ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST, AND SEVERALLY MEMBERS THEREOF and so what is true of the natural is analogously true of the spiritual body. From the foregoing general statements t...
SEVERALLY (εκ μερους). See Romans 11:25 απο μερους (in part). Each has his own place and function in the body of Christ....
1 Corinthians 12:27 I. The Church is the body in which Christ dwells as the soul, lighting up the body with His Divine presence, the organisation of this tabernacle being the sanctified tabernacle of...
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...
ARE CHRIST'S BODY. "By your baptism into union with Christ, you become part of the ONE church or body, of which Christ is the head, soul, and ruler; and considers things done to parts of that body as...
_Niw ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular._ THE BODY OF CHRIST I. True Christians, as the body of Christ, manifest His personal presence among men. In Christ incarnate “God was manif...
_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
. _Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular._ The Latin version gives "members of the member." This is explained (1.) by S. Thomas: "You are members of the principal member, viz., Chri...
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 12:12; 1 Corinthians 12:14; Colossians 1:24; Ephesians 1:23;...
In particular [ε κ μ ε ρ ο υ ς]. Rev., better, severally. Each according to his own place and function. See on part, Romans 11:25....
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
Now ye — Corinthians. Are the body and members of Christ — part of them, I mean, not the whole body....
Our apostle having thus finished his elegant and excellent comparison between the members of the natural, and those of the mystical body; he comes now to make. particular and close application of it t...