1 CORINTHIANS 12:15 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?”
Now if the foot says, 'Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,' it would not for that reason stop being part of the body — Paul personifies the members, giving voice to the foot's anxiety: its lack of hand-like function does not exclude it from the body; the logic is reductio ad absurdum of any member's claim to exclusion based on different function.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 12:15
“For the body is not one member, but many.” i.e., We have come to the same initiation, we enjoy the same Table. And why said he not, “we are nourished by the same body and drink the same blood?” Because by saying “Spirit,” he declared them both, as well the flesh as the blood. For through both are we “made to drink of the Spirit.” But to me he appears now to speak of that visitation of the Spirit which takes place in us after Baptism and before the Mysteries. And he said,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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