Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary
1 Corinthians 12:24
ὑστερουμένῳ אABC. ὑστεροῦντι DEFG.
24. συνεκέρασεν. Literally, mingled together.
ὑστερουμένῳ, which comes short of any other.
ὑστερουμένῳ אABC. ὑστεροῦντι DEFG.
24. συνεκέρασεν. Literally, mingled together.
ὑστερουμένῳ, which comes short of any other.
Verse 24. _FOR OUR COMELY PARTS HAVE NO NEED_] It would be easy to go into great detail in giving an _anatomical_ description of the different members and parts to which the apostle refers, but it wo...
FOR OUR COMELY PARTS - The face, etc. “Have no need.” No need of clothing or ornament. BUT GOD HATH TEMPERED THE BODY TOGETHER - Literally, “mingled” or mixed; that is, has made to coalesce, or strict...
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...
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...
THE CONFESSION OF THE SPIRIT (1 Corinthians 12:1-3)...
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...
COMELY. Greek. _euschemon._ See Acts 13:50. HATH. Omit. TEMPERED... TOGETHER. mingled together, or compounded. Greek. _sunkerannumi._ Only here and Hebrews 4:2. LACKED. came short. Greek. _hustereo....
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...
_tempered_ So Wiclif. _Disposed_, Tyndale. _Temperavit_, Vulgate. Literally, MINGLED TOGETHER....
_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...
ΕΥΣΧΉΜΩΝ (G2157) приличный, ΣΥΝΕΚΈΡΑΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΣΥΝΚΕΡΆΝΝΥΜΙ (G4786) смешивать, мешать. Бог "смешал" части тела, чтобы они работали в согласии (Grosheide). ΎΣΤΕΡΟΥΜΈΝΦ _praes. med._/ _pa...
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...
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...
For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: TEMPERED ... TOGETHER - by mutual compensation. TO THAT P...
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...
_(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...
NO NEED] of clothing. TEMPERED.. TOGETHER] wrought all into harmony. GIVEN MORE ABUNDANT HONOUR] by implanting in men the instinct of 1 Corinthians 12:23....
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...
FOR OUR COMELY PARTS HAVE NO NEED. — These words (better, _and our comely parts have no need_) conclude the former verse. The words, “But God hath tempered,” commence a new sentence, in which the natu...
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...
1 Corinthians 12:22-24 _a_. “On the contrary” (ἀλλά), instead of the more powerful and dignified (1 Corinthians 12:23) bodily parts dispensing with the humbler (1 Corinthians 12:21),
1 Corinthians 12:21-31 _a_. § 41. THE MUTUAL DEPENDENCE OF THE BODY'S MEMBERS. Multiformity, it has been shown, is of the essence of organic life. But the variously endowed members, being needful to t...
EACH CONTRIBUTING HIS PART 1 Corinthians 12:20 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. Indeed, it w...
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...
The Need For Different Members God put different members in the body to perform specific functions. If all were the same part, even the most important, they would not have made up a body. Different me...
Cicero, in his 1st liber de Off. speaking of the human body, says, Natura quæ formam nostram atque figuram, in qua esset species honesta, eam posuit in promptu; quæ partes autem corporis ad naturæ nec...
But, as to functions which of themselves honour those who fill them, there is nothing to add to this intrinsic honour. They resemble the beautiful parts of the body, which would be wronged were they c...
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...
(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...
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...
24._But God hath tempered the body together _He again repeats, what he had stated once before, (1 Corinthians 12:18,) but more explicitly, — that God has appointed this symmetry, and that with a view...
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...
FOR OUR COMELY PARTS HAVE NO NEED,.... As the face, eyes, nose, lips, cheeks, c. which stand in no need of an external covering, of any outward ornament: so such as are blessed with the bounties of na...
For our comely _parts_ have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that _part_ which lacked: Ver. 24. _For our comely parts_] A fair face needs no dres...
_For our comely_ and graceful _parts have no need_ Of being so adorned, as they appear to greater advantage uncovered; _but God hath tempered the body together_ Συνεκερασε, hath attempered and united...
ARE NECESSARY; the strongest and most prominent members of the body are not in all cases the most essential to human life, but often those which are more feeble and concealed. Those parts which need i...
FOR OUR COMELY PARTS HAVE NO NEED; BUT GOD HATH, TEMPERED THE BODY TOGETHER, HAVING GIVEN MORE ABUNDANT HONOR TO THAT PART WHICH LACKED,...
The application of the figure:...
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...
WHEREAS OUR COMELY PARTS HAVE NO NEED: BUT GOD TEMPERED THE BODY TOGETHER, GIVING MORE ABUNDANT HONOR TO THAT PART WHICH LACKED; 'comely parts have no need' -'while the more decorous parts (e.g., th...
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...
God hath, in the wisdom of his providence, so ordered it, that as we have some parts of our body which are judged uncomely, and not for those noble uses that others are; so we have other parts that ar...
whereas our comely parts have no need: but God tempered the body together, giving more abundant honor to that part which lacked;...
1 Corinthians 12:24 but G1161 our G2257 presentable G2158 have G2192 (G5719) no G3756 need G5532 But...
For God, in tempering (combining) the body together in Christ, has given more abundant honour to those parts which were lacking, so that all would be as one and there might be no schism, so that all m...
'No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be more feeble are necessary, and those parts of the body, which we think to be less honourable, on these we bestow more abundant honour, and...
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...
1 Corinthians 12:24-26 . WHEREAS OUR COMELY PARTS HAVE NO NEED, etc. The language, it will be observed, is studiously so framed as to apply equally to the natural and the spiritual body....
TEMPERED THE BODY TOGETHER (συνεκερασεν το σωμα). First aorist active indicative of συνκεραννυμ, to mix together, old word, but in N.T. only here and Hebrews 4:2. Plato used this very word of the wa...
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...
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...
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...
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...
WHICH THE MORE BEAUTIFUL PARTS. We beautify our bodies by covering up certain parts and decorating others with items of clothing. But our head, face, and hands don't need such coverings. The point is...
_But now are they many members, yet but one body._ THE MEMBERS OF THE BODY OF CHRIST I. Their unity. “One body.” II. Their diversity. The eye, the hand, etc. III. Mutual dependence. IV. Admirable...
_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...
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
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...
_For our comely parts have no need._ The eyes, the face, and the hands, which are the more comely parts of the body, lack no ornament, but are comely enough in themselves. _Having given more abundant...
_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...
EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 12:1.—1 Corinthians 14:1.—ON SPIRITUAL GIFTS, AND THE DANGER WHICH AROSE FROM THE
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...
Genesis 2:25; Genesis 3:11...
Tempered together [σ υ ν ε κ ρ α σ ε ν]. Only here and Hebrews 4:2. Lit., mixed together. Here the idea of mutual adjustment is added to that of mingling. Compare Plato on God's creating the soul and...
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
Giving more abundant honour to that which lacked — As being cared for and served by the noblest parts....