1 CORINTHIANS 6:15 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.”
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.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 6:15
Having passed on from the fornicator to the covetous person, he comes back to the former from the latter, no longer henceforth discoursing with him but with the others who had not committed fornication. And in the act of securing them lest they fall into the same sins, he assails him again. For he that has committed sin, though you direct your words to another, is stung even in that way; his conscience being thoroughly awakened and scourging him. Now the fear of punishment…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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