1 CORINTHIANS 12:13 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.”
For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body — whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free — and we were all given the one Spirit to drink — baptism into the one Spirit creates the one body, dissolving all status distinctions (Jew/Gentile, slave/free); the phrase 'given the one Spirit to drink' evokes both the Supper and the Spirit as the water of life, unifying baptism and Eucharist under pneumatic participation.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 12:13
“For in one Spirit, says he, were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free.” Now his meaning is this: that which established us to become one body and regenerated us, is one Spirit: for not in one Spirit was one baptized, and another another. And not only is that which has baptized us one, but also that unto which He baptized us, i.e., for which He baptized us, is one. For we were baptized not that so many several bodies might be formed,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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