ACC ~ 1 Corinthians 12 v27

BE AT PEACE WITH THE CHURCH EVERYWHERE. CHRYSOSTOM: The Corinthian church was not the whole body by itself but was part of a worldwide community of faith. Therefore the Corinthians ought to be at peace with the church in every other place, if it is a true member of the body. HOMILIES ON THE EPISTLES OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 32.1.

NOT INDIVIDUALS VOLUNTARILY JOINED. SEVERIAN OF GABALA: We are not individual members who elect to join together to form a whole but rather organic members of a wider whole, which is the whole body. PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH.

RISEN WITH HIM. MAXIMUS OF TURIN: In Christ’s resurrection, all his members have necessarily risen with him. For while he passes from the depths to the heights, he has made us pass from death to life. SERMON 54.

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