1 Corinthians 12:12,13

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.

Unity, not unvarying uniformity, is the law of God in grace as in nature (Romans 12:4). As the body's many members compose an organic whole, and none can be dispensed with, so those variously gifted by the Spirit compose a spiritual organism-the body of Christ-into which all are baptized by the one Spirit.

Of that one body. So C Delta. But 'Aleph (') A B G g, Vulgate, omit "one."

So also is Christ - i:e., the whole Christ, the head and body. So , 'His anointed (Messiah or Christ), David (the antitypical David), and his seed.'

By one Spirit are we all baptized - literally, 'in' in virtue of; in the sphere or element of. The designed effect of baptism realized when not frustrated by man's unfaithfulness.

Gentiles - literally, Greeks. The Greeks had a susceptibility for the gift of tongues (on which the Corinthians prided themselves), the Romans for practical gifts, the Jews for spiritual. all made to drink into one Spirit. 'Aleph (') B C Delta G f g read 'made to drink one Spirit,' omitting "into" (); an allusion to the Lord's supper (though including all channels of grace: of, the same Greek verb, ), since there is an allusion to baptism in the beginning of the verse. So the 'spirit, the water, and the blood' () combine the two outward signs with the inward things signified, the Spirit's grace,

are have been rather as Greek 'were were' (aorists; past time) are ... have been - rather, as Greek, 'were ... were' (aorists; past time).