For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
Ver. 17. And one body] By the force of faith and love. Song of Solomon 6:9; "My dove is but one; the daughters saw her, and blessed her." No such oneness, entireness, anywhere as among the saints. Other societies are but as the clay in the toes of Nebuchadnezzar's image, they may cleave together, but not incorporate one into another.