1 CORINTHIANS 12:27 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.”
Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it — Paul applies the metaphor directly: the gathered congregation at Corinth is not merely like a body; it is soma Christou (the body of Christ), a staggering claim that their fractured assembly is Christ's very body, making their divisions a tearing of Christ himself.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 12:27
For lest any should say, “What is the example of the body to us? Since the body is a slave to nature but our good deeds are of choice;” he applies it to our own concerns; and to signify that we ought to have the same concord of design as they have from nature, he says, “Now you are the body of Christ.” But if our body ought not to be divided, much less the body of Christ, and so much less as grace is more powerful than nature. But what is the expression, “severally?” “So far…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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