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Verse 29. _ARE ALL APOSTLES_, c.] That is: All are _not_ apostles, all
are not _prophets_, c. God has distributed his various gifts among
various persons, each of whom is necessary for the complete
ed...
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ARE ALL APOSTLES? ... - These questions imply, with strong emphasis,
that it could not be, and ought not to be, that there should be
perfect equality of endowment. It was not a matter of fact that all...
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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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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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THE CONFESSION OF THE SPIRIT (1 Corinthians 12:1-3)...
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_ ARE_. All these seven questions are introduced by _me_ (App-105).
WORKERS OF. There is no word for "workers". Figure of speech
_Ellipsis._ App-6....
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_Are all apostles?_ The common priesthood of every Christian (1 Peter
2:5; 1 Peter 2:9) no more precludes the existence of special offices
of authority in the Christian Church than the common priestho...
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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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ΜῊ ΠΆΝΤΕΣ�; The common priesthood of every Christian (1
Peter 2:5; 1 Peter 2:9) no more precludes the existence of special
offices of authority in the Christian Church than the common
priesthood of th...
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COMPARISON OF THE UNITY OF THE BODY AND THE UNITY OF THE CHRISTIAN
CHURCH...
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_MEMBERS THAT LOVE ONE ANOTHER 1 CORINTHIANS 12:27-31:_ In the close
of this chapter we will see the application Paul made concerning the
spiritual gifts given in the one body. The church is composed...
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ΜΉ (G3361), отр. используется для введения
вопроса, на который ожидается
отрицательный ответ: "не все ведь
апостолы, не так ли?...
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ARE ALL APOSTLES?— It appears that this invidious temper was not
extirpated from among the Corinthians, even by this just and lively
expostulation: for Clemens Romanus, writing to them many years afte...
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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
Singleness in Diversity (1 Corinthians 12:27-31)
27 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
28And God has appointed in the church first apostles, s...
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Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers
of miracles?
ARE ALL ... ? Surely not....
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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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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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In this string of rhetorical questions P. recapitulates once more the
charisms, in the terms of 1 Corinthians 12:28. He adds now to the
γλώσσαις λαλεῖν its complementary
διερμηνεύειν (see 10, and 1 Co...
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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...
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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...
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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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Division Is Undesirable
Clearly, the facts Paul presented proved God created the body in such
a way that division is undesirable. Every member of the physical body
feels for the other members. If one...
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“Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all
powers? 30. Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues?
do all interpret?” God has given to believers a certain spiritual
e...
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(27) Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. (28)
And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily
prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of
heal...
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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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29._Are all Apostles _? It may indeed have happened, that one
individual was endowed with many gifts, and sustained two of the
offices which he has enumerated; nor was there in this any
inconsistency....
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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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ARE ALL APOSTLES?.... No some are prophets, as distinct from apostles;
and some are teachers, as distinct from them both, and some are
neither:
ARE ALL PROPHETS? no; some are apostles, above them, an...
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_Are_ all apostles? _are_ all prophets? _are_ all teachers? _are_ all
workers of miracles?
Ver. 29. _Are all teachers?_] Yes, some would have it so, as in
Alcibiades' army all were leaders, no learne...
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_And God hath set in the church first apostles_ Who planted the gospel
in the heathen nations, being honoured with an office of the highest
distinction, and furnished with endowments peculiar to thems...
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These were different offices which God established in the churches at
first; referred to in verse 1 Corinthians 12:5.
APOSTLES; men who had seen Christ after his resurrection, and were
commissioned by...
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ARE ALL APOSTLES? ARE ALL PROPHETS? ARE ALL TEACHERS? ARE ALL WORKERS
OF MIRACLES?...
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The spiritual meaning of the comparison:...
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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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WORKERS:
Or, powers...
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ARE ALL APOSTLES? ARE ALL PROPHETS? ARE ALL TEACHERS? ARE ALL WORKERS
OF MIRACLES?...
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27-31 Contempt, hatred, envy, and strife, are very unnatural in
Christians. It is like the members of the same body being without
concern for one another, or quarrelling with each other. The proud,
c...
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Ver. 29,30. That is, all are not, nor can be, any more than all the
body can be an ear, or an eye, or a hand, or a foot: you cannot
expect, that in a governed body all should be governors; and you see...
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Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers
of miracles?...
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The First Epistle of Clement Concerning Virginity
And they hearken not to that which the Scripture has said: "Let not
many be teachers among you, my brethren, and be not all of you
prophets."[98]...
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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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'Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers
of miracles? Have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do
all interpret?'
The questions are a reminder of their inte...
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1 Corinthians 12:29-30. ARE ALL APOSTLES, etc. If not, then why
suppose that all possess and were intended to exercise every gift, or
imagine that this would benefit the Church?...
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ARE ALL
(μη παντες). The μη expects a negative answer with each
group....
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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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THEY ARE NOT ALL. Paul once again shows the wide variety of abilities,
and the fact that each has his own special part to play in the _body._...
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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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_And God hath set some in the Church, first apostles._
HELP-WORK
The words which I have taken as my text occupy, you will remember, a
somewhat exceptional position. They occur in the midst of what se...
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1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 12:29 ARE ALL APOSTLES? The
answer is obviously no. Paul also expects the reader to answer no to
all of the following questions....
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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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_Are all apostles?_ Certainly not. Let each, therefore, be content
with the position in which God has placed him in the Church, and with
the grace that he has freely received from God, and thank God f...
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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 12:14; 1 Corinthians 12:4...
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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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The force of the apostle's argument lies thus: As the natural body, to
which he had before alluded, cannot be all eye, nor all ear, nor all
hand, nor all foot; in like manner in the mystical body, the...