“ Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. ”
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 hum...
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.
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 pa...
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....
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 ingraf...
Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. 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 th...
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, a...
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 collectivel...
(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 prophec...
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...
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 pa...
Each Contributing His Part 1 Corinthians 12:20-31 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. Ind...
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 Sp...
(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 hea...
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, o...
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 luctuos...
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 himsel...
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 sa...
On Spiritual Gifts. A. D. 57. 27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. ...
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...
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 i...
CRITICAL NOTES 1 Corinthians 12:1 .— Gifts is a translators’ supplement; right in fact, as 1 Corinthians 12:4-11 show; slightly too precise in word. Almost certainly neuter , and so very gene...
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...
1 Corinthians 12:1-2 . 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 th...
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,...
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 t...
EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 12:1-46 .— 1 Corinthians 14:1-46 .— ON SPIRITUAL GIFTS , AND THE DANGER WHICH AROSE FROM THE ABUSE OF THE " GIFT OF TONGUES ." 1 Corinthi...
Now ye are the body of Christ and members in particular.
1 Corinthians 12:12 ; 1 Corinthians 12:14-20 ; Colossians 1:24 ; Ephesians 1:23 ; Ephesians 4:12 ; Ephesians 5:23 ; Ephesians 5:30 ; Romans 12:5
Concerning Spiritual Gifts 1 Corinthians 12:1-31 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. A contrast between the spiritual and the carnal in Abram and Lot ( Genesis 18:1-33 and Genesis 19:1-38 ). 2. A con...
Now ye — Corinthians. Are the body and members of Christ — part of them, I mean, not the whole body.