1 Corinthians 6:17

ὁ δὲ κολλώμενος τῳ Κυρίῳ κ. τ. λ.: “But he who cleaves to the Lord is one spirit (with Him)”. Adhesion by the act of faith (1 Corinthians 1:21, etc.) to Christ (as Lord, cf. 1 Corinthians 12:3, etc.) establishes a spiritual communion of the man with Him as real and close as the other, bodily communion (“tam arcte quam conjuges sunt unum corpus,” Bg [986]), and as much more influential and enduring as the spirit is above the flesh. “ The Spirit” is the uniting bond (1 Corinthians 3:16; Romans 8:8 f., etc.), but the Ap. is thinking of the nature and sphere of this union; hence the anarthrous, generic πνεῦμα, contrasted with σάρξ (1 Corinthians 6:16). In 2 Corinthians 3:17 “the Lord” is identified with “the Spirit.” and believers are repeatedly said to be ἐν Πνεύματι; so that between them and Christ there exists a κοινωνία Πνεύματος (1 Corinthians 1:9; 2 Corinthians 13:13; John 16:14, etc.). For the intimacy of this association of members with the Head, see Galatians 2:20, Ephesians 2:5 f., 1 Corinthians 3:16 f., Colossians 2:10; Colossians 3:1 ff., John 15:1 ff; John 17:23 ff., etc.

[986] Bengel's Gnomon Novi Testamenti.