The Expositor's Bible: The First Epistle to the CorinthiansDods, Marcus
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The Expositor's Bible: The First Epistle to the Corinthians
Dods, Marcus
Bible. Corinthians, 1st -- Commentaries
'I can no other' was the voice of each.... Their large
purposes were what they owed to themselves just as much as to their
world."[14]
[14] Professor Jones in _Essays in Philosophical Criticism_.
Those who cannot philosophically reconcile the claims of society and
the claims of the individual are yet enabled by their attachment to
Christ and by their acceptance of His Spirit to merge self in the
larger whole of Christ's body and find their truest life in seeking
the good of others. It is by their acceptance of Christ's Spirit as
the source and Guide of their own life that they enter into fellowship
with the community of men.
2. Paul is careful to show that the very efficiency of the body
depends upon the multiplicity and variety of the members of which it
is composed: "If they were all one member, where were the body?" "If
the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were
hearing, where were the smelling?" The lowest forms of life have
either no distinct organs or very few; but the higher we ascend in the
scale of life the more numerous and more distinctly differentiated are
the organs. In the lower forms one member discharges several
functions, and the animal uses the same organ for locomotion as it
uses for eating and digesting; in the higher forms each department of
life and activity is presided over by its own sense or organ. The same
law holds good of society. Among tribes low down in the scale of
civilisation each man is his own farmer, or shepherd, or huntsman, and
his own priest, and butcher, and cook, and clothier. Each man does
everything for himself. But as men become civilised the various wants
of society are supplied by different individuals, and every function
is specialized. The same law necessarily holds true of the body of
Christ. It is highly organized, and no one organ can do the whole work
of the body. Therefore one has this gift, another that. And the more
nearly this body approaches perfection, the more various and distinct
will these gifts be.
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