“So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.”
so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. — En Christō (in Christ), the many (hoi polloi) become one body. Belong (eimi) to one another establishes mutual obligation and interdependence. The body metaphor moves from natural anatomy to ecclesiology: church is Christ's body wherein each member finds identity through the whole.
Church Fathers on Romans 12:5
Again he uses the same ensample as he does to the Corinthians, and that to allay the same passion. For great is the power of the medicine, and the force of this illustration for the correcting of this disease of haughtiness. Why (he means) do you think highly of yourself? Or why again does another utterly despise himself? Are we not all one body, both great and small? When then we are in the total number but one, and members one of another, why do you by your haughtiness…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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