1 CORINTHIANS 10:17 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.”
Because there is one loaf, we, who are many, are one body, for we all share the one loaf. — The eucharistic logic: one bread unites the many into one soma (body), which is Christ. The singular artos (loaf) creates singular soma (body). Communion is simultaneously individual participation and corporate unity. The eucharist enacts and constitutes the church's identity as Christ's body.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 10:17
“For we, who are many, are one bread, one body.” “For why speak I of communion?” says he, “we are that self-same body.” For what is the bread? The Body of Christ. And what do they become who partake of it? The Body of Christ: not many bodies, but one body. For as the bread consisting of many grains is made one, so that the grains no where appear; they exist indeed, but their difference is not seen by reason of their conjunction; so are we conjoined both with each other and…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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