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IF THE WHOLE BODY ... - The idea in this verse is, that all the parts
of the body are useful in their proper place, and that it would be as
absurd to require or expect that all the members of the chur...
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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...
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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...
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THE CONFESSION OF THE SPIRIT (1 Corinthians 12:1-3)...
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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...
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IF. App-118.
SMELLING. Greek. _osphresis._ Only here....
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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...
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_If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing?_ "Observe here
the difference between the Christian doctrine of unity and equality,
and the world's idea of levelling all to one standard. The i...
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COMPARISON OF THE UNITY OF THE BODY AND THE UNITY OF THE CHRISTIAN
CHURCH...
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ΕἸ ὍΛΟΝ ΤῸ ΣΩ͂ΜΑ ὈΦΘΑΛΜΌΣ. ‘Observe here
the difference between the Christian doctrine of unity and equality,
and the world’s idea of levelling all to one standard. The intention
of God with respect t...
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_MANY DIVERSE MEMBERS UNITED 1 CORINTHIANS 12:15-26:_ There is nothing
more diverse and nothing more united than the body. The imaginary
conversations between the various parts of the body make this p...
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ΕΊ (G1487) если. Вводит _conj._ 1 типа, которое
предполагает реальность условия ради
силы аргумента (VA, 294-304).
ΆΚΟ (G189) слух,
ΌΣΨΡΗΣΙΣ (G3750) обоняние. Если бы все
тело представляло собой оди...
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IF THE WHOLE BODY WERE AN EYE.— The Apostle by this intends probably
to insinuate, that were there no other gifts in the church but those
which they so much extolled in some of their teachers, it woul...
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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...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
SECTION 3
Sagaciousness of Diversity (1 Corinthians 12:12-26)
12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the
members of the body, though many, are one body, so i...
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If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole
were hearing, where were the smelling?
Superior as the eye is, it would not do if it were the sole member....
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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...
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_(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...
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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...
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IF THE WHOLE BODY WERE AN EYE. — Here is shown how absurd it would
be for the body to be merely one member, and in 1 Corinthians 12:19 is
shown the converse absurdity of the members losing their
indiv...
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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...
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§ 40. THE ONE BODY, OF MANY MEMBERS. The manifold graces, ministries,
workings (1 Corinthians 12:4 ff.), that proceed from the action of the
Holy Spirit in the Christian community, stand not only in c...
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expostulates in the vein of 1 Corinthians 12:15 f. with those who
exalt one order of gifts (either as possessing it themselves or
envying it in their neighbours) to the contempt of others; the
despise...
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MANY MEMBERS IN ONE BODY
1 Corinthians 12:12
The use of gifts must never be dictated by personal ambition or the
desire for selfish gain. As every member of the physical body is
united to the head by...
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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...
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The Unity of the Body
There is but one body. That body is the church. Paul told the Ephesian
brethren, "There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called
in one hope of your calling." Earlier...
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(11) If the whole body [were] an eye, where [were] the hearing? If the
whole [were] hearing, where [were] the smelling?
(11) Again speaking to them, he shows them that if that should come to
pass whic...
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The object of this exposition is manifest. The Corinthians were
disposed to exaggerate the value of certain gifts, which, from their
extraordinary character, were fitted to strike the senses, in
parti...
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“If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the
body; is it not, in spite of that, of the body? 16. If the ear shall
say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it not,...
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This verse is more easily connected in the second sense of the word
τοῦτο. If, from the fact that the foot is not the hand, etc., it
followed that it did not form part of the body, the admirable varie...
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(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.
(13) For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether...
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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...
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17._If the whole body were an eye _He sets aside a foolish aiming at
equality, by showing the impossibility of it. “If all the
members,” says he, “desire the honor that belongs to the _eye,
_the conse...
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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...
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IF THE WHOLE BODY WERE AN EYE,.... And nothing else,
WHERE WERE THE HEARING? there would be no ear, and so no sense of
hearing: and if the whole were hearing: or only consisted of a member
capable of...
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If the whole body _were_ an eye, where _were_ the hearing? If the
whole _were_ hearing, where _were_ the smelling?
Ver. 17. _If the whole body, &c._] It is proper to God to be
πανοφθαλμος, all eye; _...
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_For the body is not one member, but many_ All of which are necessary,
that the various sorts of offices belonging to the body may be all
performed: thus there must be different gifts and offices in t...
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The body of Christ and its members:...
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IF THE WHOLE BODY WERE AN EYE, WHERE WERE THE HEARING? IF THE WHOLE
WERE HEARING, WHERE WERE THE SMELLING?...
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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...
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IF THE WHOLE BODY WERE AN EYE, WHERE WERE THE HEARING? IF THE WHOLE
WERE HEARING, WHERE WERE THE SMELLING?
'If the whole body were an eye' -'The eye is the most wonderful organ
and supremely useful,...
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12-26 Christ and his church form one body, as Head and members.
Christians become members of this body by baptism. The outward rite is
of Divine institution; it is a sign of the new birth, and is cal...
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There are several actions to be performed by the body of a man, either
for the support and the upholding of it in life, or for the
accommodation of it while it lives; seeing, hearing, and smelling
(wh...
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If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole
were hearing, where were the smelling?...
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1 Corinthians 12:17 If G1487 whole G3650 body G4983 eye G3788 where
G4226 hearing G189 If G1487 whole G365
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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...
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'For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot shall say,
"Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body", it is not therefore
not of the body. And if the ear shall say, "Because I am not th...
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1 Corinthians 12:17. IF THE WHOLE BODY WERE AN EYE, WHERE WERE THE
HEARING? IF... HEARING, THEN WHERE WERE THE SMELLING? How preposterous
then this rivalry between different gifts of the one Spirit, d...
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IF THE WHOLE BODY WERE AN EYE
(ε ολον το σωμα οφθαλμος). The eye is the most
wonderful organ and supremely useful (Numbers 10:31), the very light
of the body (Luke 11:34). And yet how grotesque it...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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IF THE WHOLE BODY. Paul shows how absurd their jealousy of each other
is, by showing what would happen to the human body if the subordinate
parts were omitted....
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_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...
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FOR BY ONE SPIRIT WE ARE ALL BAPTIZED INTO ONE BODY.
OF UNION WITH CHRIST
Consider--
I. How Christ’s redemption is applied to a sinner. By uniting the
sinner to Christ (1 Corinthians 1:30). Men must...
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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
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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...
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_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...
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EXPOSITION
1 Corinthians 12:1.—1 Corinthians 14:1.—ON SPIRITUAL GIFTS, AND
THE DANGER WHICH AROSE FROM THE
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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...
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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