The blessing of God be on all those that continue constant in their love to Christ, and are not corrupted out of it by any of the baits or seductions of these times: (see note [b] Rev. ii.) [h] members of his—] It is the manner of the sacred writers to express a complex body by the enumeration of the several parts of it, as the heaven and the earth for the world, evening and morning for the natural day, and many the like; see note [c] on Col. i, and note [b] on 2 Pet. iii.; and so here his flesh and his bones signifies no more than he: and so the whole importance of the verse is, that we are members of Christ, and nothing else, (see note [d] on John vi.)