_1 Cor. 6:15, 19_—“_Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ?... know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God?_” _12:12_—“_For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ_”—here Christ is identified with the church of which he is the head; _Eph. 1:22, 23_—“_he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all_”—as the members of the human body are united to the head, the source of their activity and the power that controls their movements, so all believers are members of an invisible body whose head is Christ. Shall we tie a string round the finger to keep for it its own blood? No, for all the blood of the body is needed to nourish one finger. So Christ is “_head over all things to_ [for the benefit of] _the church_” (Tyler, Theol. Greek Poets, preface, ii). “The church is the fulness (πλήρωμα) of Christ; as it was not good for the first man, Adam, to be alone, no more was it good for the second man, Christ” (C. H. M.). _Eph. 4:15, 16_—“_grow up in all things into him, who is the head, even Christ; from whom all the body ... maketh the increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love_”; _5:29, 30_—“_for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church; because we are members of his body._” (_e_) From the union of the race with the source of its life in Adam.