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Verse 1 Corinthians 12:14. _FOR THE BODY IS NOT ONE MEMBER_] The
_mystical_ body, the Church, as well as the _natural_ body, is
composed of many members....
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FOR THE BODY ... - The body is made up of many members, which have
various offices. So it is in the church. We are to expect the same
variety there; and we are not to presume either that all will be
a...
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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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_For the body is not one member, but many_ The same leading idea is
kept in view the diversity of functions, offices, gifts, but the unity
of the body. No more complete or apposite illustration could...
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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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COMPARISON OF THE UNITY OF THE BODY AND THE UNITY OF THE CHRISTIAN
CHURCH...
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ΟΥ̓Κ ἜΣΤΙΝ ἝΝ ΜΈΛΟΣ. The same leading idea is kept
in view—the diversity of functions, offices, gifts, but the unity of
the body. No more complete or apposite illustration could be given.
The body is...
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_MANY MEMBERS IN ONE BODY 1 CORINTHIANS 12:12-14:_ The one body is the
one church of Christ. (Ephesians 1:22-23; Ephesians 4:4) Paul used the
human body to help us better understand the church
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ΤΟ ΣΏΜΑ (G4983), артикль при подлежащем
"тело" является обобщающим: "любое
тело" (Barrett; GGBB, 253-54).
ΈΣΤΙΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть,
состоять из чего-л....
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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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For the body is not one member, but many.
Translate, For the body also.' The analogy of the body, not
consisting exclusively of one, but of many members, illustrates the
mutual dependence of the va...
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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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FOR THE BODY IS NOT ONE MEMBER, BUT MANY. — Here follows a series of
suggestions as to the different parts of the body claiming
independence of the body itself, which the nature of the case shows to
b...
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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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recalls, under the analogy of the σῶμα, the reason given in 1
Corinthians 12:12 for the diversity of spiritual powers displayed in
the Church: it is not “one member,” but “many” that constitute
the “b...
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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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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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(9) For the body is not one member, but many.
(9) He amplifies that which followed of the similitude, as if he
should say, "The unity of the body is not prevented by this diversity
of members, and fu...
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The apostle impresses this idea by taking up again the figure of the
body which he had used to describe the unity of the Church; to this
end it is enough for him to reverse the figure. In 1 Corinthian...
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“And indeed, by being baptized by one Spirit, we have all become one
body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free.”
The καὶ γάρ, _and indeed_, relates to the last words of the
foregoing verse:...
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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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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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FOR THE BODY IS NOT ONE MEMBER,.... Not only one; nor is anyone member
the body, though ever so eminent, as the head or eye: thus the church
of Christ is not one person only, or does not consist of on...
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For the body is not one member, but many.
Ver. 14. _Not one member, but many_] As man's body curiously wrought,
and as it were by the book, Psalms 139:16. Had God left out an eye or
hand in his commo...
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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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FOR THE BODY IS NOT ONE MEMBER, BUT MANY....
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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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FOR THE BODY IS NOT ONE MEMBER, BUT MANY.
While the body is one (1 Corinthians 12:13), it is. mistake to think
that the body is composed of one member. But, by elevating the gift of
tongues over all o...
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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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As the natural body is _totum integrale, _ a whole consisting of many
members; so the body spiritual, the mystical body of Christ, is not
made up of one single member, but of many members....
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For the body is not one member, but many....
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1 Corinthians 12:14 For G1063 G2532 body G4983 is G2076 (G5748) not
G3756 one G1520 member G3196 but
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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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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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IS NOT ONE MEMBER
(ουκ εστιν εν μελος). The point sounds like a truism,
but it is the key to the whole problem of church life both local and
general. Vincent refers to the fable of the body and the...
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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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FOR THE BODY ITSELF. The human body is made up of many different
parts, with different abilities and different functions....
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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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_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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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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1 Corinthians 12:12; 1 Corinthians 12:19; 1 Corinthians 12:27; 1
Corinthians 12:28;...
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The body. The student will naturally recall the fable of the body and
the members uttered by Menenius Agrippa, and related by Livy, 2, 32;
but the illustration seems to have been a favorite one, and o...
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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
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Our apostle here elegantly compares the state of the mystical body,
the church, with that of the natural body. As the natural body is one,
so is the mystical body; as the natural body is informed and...