And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Ver. 26. And whether one man suffer] This spiritual sympathy, mirum est quam frigide tractetur inter Christianos hodie, saith Aretius on this text. See Trapp on " 1Co 12:20 " See Trapp on " 1Co 12:27 " Luther in a certain epistle of his to Lampertus Thorn, a prisoner for Christ, thus writeth, Consolabor me quod vestra vincula men sunt, vestri carceres et ignes mei sunt; sunt vero, dum ea confiteor et praedico, vobisque simul compatior, et congratulor, that is, I doubt (and it is a grief to me) that I shall never have the honour of martyrdom as you have. But herein I can comfort myself, that your bonds are my bonds, your imprisonment and burning at a stake mine; for so they are so long as I confess and extol them; so long as I both suffer with you and rejoice with you. (Tom. ii. Epist.)