Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! — The rhetorical horror builds: union with a prostitute would be literally incorporating Christ into illicit sexual commerce. The formula mē genoito (may it not happen! God forbid!) expresses absolute repudiation. Membership in Christ's body (the ekklēsia) is not merely metaphorical but constitutive: personal embodied existence participates in the body of Christ, making sexual immorality sacrilege against that cosmic union.

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