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Verse 26. _AND WHETHER ONE MEMBER SUFFER_] As there is a mutual
exertion for the general defence, so there is a mutual sympathy. If
the _eye_, the _hand_, the _foot_, c., be injured, the _whole man_
g...
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AND WHETHER ONE MEMBER SUFFER - One member, or part of the body.
ALL THE MEMBERS SUFFER WITH IT - This, we all know, is the case with
the body. A pain in the foot, the hand, or the head excites deep
s...
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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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WHETHER. if at least. Greek. _eite._ Compare App-118.
SUFFER WITH IT. suffer together. Greek. _sumpascho._ Only here and
Romans 8:17.
OR. Greek. _eite_, as above.
HONOURED. glorified. See 1 Corinth...
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_And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it_ This
is a matter of the most ordinary experience in the human body. A pain
in any portion, even the most remote from the seats of life,...
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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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ΚΑῚ ΕἼΤΕ ΠΆΣΧΕΙ ἝΝ ΜΈΛΟΣ. This is a matter of
the most ordinary experience in the human body. A pain in any portion,
even the most remote from the seats of life, affects the whole. A
glance at history...
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COMPARISON OF THE UNITY OF THE BODY AND THE UNITY OF THE CHRISTIAN
CHURCH...
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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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ΠΆΣΧΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΠΆΣΧΩ (G3958)
страдать,
ΣΥΜΠΆΣΧΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΣΥΜΠΆΣΚΩ (G4841)
страдать вместе,
ΔΟΞΆΖΕΤΑΙ _praes. ind. pass. от_ ΔΟΞΆΖΩ (G1392)
почитать, прославлять; _pass._...
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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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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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And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one
member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
AND-ACCORDINGLY-ALL ... SUFFER WITH IT. 'When a thorn enters the
heel, th...
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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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ALL THE MEMBERS SUFFER WITH IT] What is true of the human body,
through the nervous connexion of all. its parts, should be true of the
Church: cp. Romans 12:5.
27-31. Application. The various offices...
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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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AND WHETHER ONE MEMBER SUFFER. — This verse completes the statement
of the perfect unity of the members in one body and with one another.
They are not only physically joined together, but they are so...
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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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illustrates the unselfish solicitude of the bodily organs; the nervous
connexion makes it a veritable συμπάθεια
(συμπάσχει). Plato applies the same analogy to the State in a
striking passage in his _P...
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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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“And whether one member suffer, all the other members suffer with
it; or one member be honoured, all the others rejoice with it.”
Καί : _and really._ “This mutual care cannot be wanting for the
body,...
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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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(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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26._Whether one member suffers _“Such a measure of
_fellow-feeling.” ( _ συμπάθεια _,) _(761) says he, “is
to be seen in the human body, that, if any inconvenience is felt by
any member, all the other...
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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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AND WHETHER ONE MEMBER SUFFER,.... Pain; even the meanest, lowest, and
most distant, as the foot or hand, toe or finger:
ALL THE MEMBERS SUFFER WITH IT; are more or less affected therewith,
and bear...
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And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one
member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Ver. 26. _And whether one man suffer_] This spiritual sympathy,
_mirum est q...
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_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...
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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...
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AND WHETHER ONE MEMBER SUFFER, ALL THE MEMBERS SUFFER WITH IT; OR ONE
MEMBER BE HONORED, ALL THE MEMBERS REJOICE WITH IT.
In the covering and adorning of the dishonorable, indecorous parts of
the body...
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The application of the figure:...
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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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AND WHETHER ONE MEMBER SUFFERETH, ALL THE MEMBERS SUFFER WITH IT; OR
ONE MEMBER IS HONORED, ALL THE MEMBERS REJOICE WITH IT.
'one member suffereth' -'When. thorn..enters the heel, the whole body
feel...
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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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From this union of the members in the body natural, of all the members
proceedeth a natural sympathy, that if one member suffereth, all are
afflicted, and ready to contribute to the relief and help ea...
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And whether one member suffereth, all the members suffer with it; or
one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it....
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Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians
but call them back as suffering and straying members, that ye may save
your whole body. For by so acting ye shall edify yourselves.[67]
Tertullian On Repentanc...
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1 Corinthians 12:26 And G2532 if G1535 one G1520 member G3196 suffers
G3958 (G5719) all G3956 members G31
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'And whether one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or
one member is honoured, all the members rejoice with it.'
Indeed the literal body is so made one that when one member of a
literal b...
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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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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....
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SUFFER WITH IT
(συνπασχε). Medical term in this sense in Hippocrates and
Galen. In N.T only here and Romans 8:17 (of our suffering with
Christ). One of Solon's Laws allowed retaliation by any one f...
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1 Corinthians 12:26
Social Responsibility.
There are three great principles which ought to govern a Christian's
thought in his estimate of a great criminal case.
I. Of these the first is, that every...
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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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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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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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AND SO THERE IS NO DIVISION IN THE BODY. The physical body becomes
both a symbol of and a basis for the spiritual group. _Chrysostom_
writes: "When the head is crowned, the whole man feels itself
glor...
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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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_There should be no schism in the body._
SCHISM MAY BE DESTRUCTIVE
A screw in the crank of an engine of an express train at full speed
thus addressed itself to the surrounding machinery: “I’m very
sm...
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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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1 Peter 3:8; 2 Corinthians 11:28; 2 Corinthians 11:29; Galatians 6:2;...
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Suffer with it. Compare Plutarch of Solon's Laws : "If any one was
beaten or maimed or suffered any violence, any man that would and was
able might prosecute the wrongdoer; intending by this to accust...
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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