John Chrysostom : For lest any should say, "What is the example of the body to us? since the body is a slave to nature but our good deeds are of choice;" he applies it to our own concerns; and to signify that we ought to have the same concord of design as they have from nature, he saith, "Now ye are the body of Christ." But if our body ought not to be divided, much less the body of Christ, and so much less as grace is more powerful than nature. But what is the expression, "severally?" "So far at least as appertaineth to you; and so far as naturally a part should be built up from you." For because he had said, "the body," whereas the whole body was not the Corinthian Church, but the Church in every part of the world, therefore he said, "severally:" i.e., the Church amongst you is a part of the Church existing every where and of the body which is made up of all the Churches: so that not only with yourselves alone, but also with the whole Church throughout the world, ye ought to be at peace, if at least ye be members of the whole body. — Homily on 1 Corinthians 32 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 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 Tertullian : And, accordingly, why excuse it on the ground of pristine precedent? It did not bear the names of "body of Christ," of "members of Christ," of "temple of God," at the time When it used to obtain pardon for adultery. — On Modesty