{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-138","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":12,"chapter_to":12,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":14,"verse_to":14},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Ambrosiaster</b>: The unity of the body consists in the fact that its many members supply the things which the other parts lack.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES</i></p><p><b>Gregory of Nyssa</b>: So is the broad serenity and calm of the soul troubled by one invading passion, and affected by the injury of a single part. They tell us too, those who have investigated the subject, that the virtues are not disunited from each other, and that to grasp the principle of any one virtue will be impossible to one who has not seized that which underlies the rest, and that the man who shows one virtue in his character will necessarily show them all. Therefore, by contraries, the depravation of anything in our moral nature will extend to the whole virtuous life; and in very truth, as the Apostle tells us, the whole is affected by the parts, and \"if one member suffer, all the members suffer with it,\" \"if one be honoured, all rejoice.\"<br/><i>— On Virginity 15</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"For the body is not one member, but many.\" i.e., We are come to the same initiation, we enjoy the same Table.</p><p>If now one Spirit both formed us and gathered us all together into one body; for this is the meaning of, \"we were baptized into one body:\" and vouchsafed us one table, and gave us all the same watering, (for this is the meaning of, \"we were made to drink into one Spirit,\") and united persons so widely separated; and if many things then become a body when they are made one: why, I pray, art thou continually tossing to and fro their difference? But if thou sayest, \"Because there are many members and diverse,\" know that this very thing is the wonder and the peculiar excellency of the body, when the things which are many and diverse make one. But if they all were some one, they would not be a body. Wherefore, he saith, \"If they were all one member, where were the body?\" This however, he mentions not till afterwards; but here he points out also something more; that besides the impossibility of any one being a body, it even takes away the being of the rest.<br/><i>— Homily on 1 Corinthians 30</i></p><p><b>Severian of Gabala</b>: Paul says this in order not to overlook the humbler members of the church. For even if someone is lesser by nature, he still belongs to the body of the church.<br/><i>— PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"9edb576cb05cf88749f4946721d704429f756a4f05da2afff58d2748ab44b391","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":138,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"15b4777e295695f004525622eb2266991cd3fcb123270283e749f8402f500ab0","translator":null,"work":null}