For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also [is] Christ.
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
Car, comme le corps est un et a plusieurs membres, et comme tous les membres du corps, malgré leur nombre, ne forment qu'un seul corps, ainsi en est-il de Christ.
KJV
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also [is] Christ.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
e Church is Christ's mystical body, like to our natural body, according to the Apostle ( Rom. 12:5 ; 1 Cor. 12:12 , 27 ; Eph. 1:22,23 ; Col. 1:24 ). Now in the natural body there are various offices of the members. Therefore in the Church also there should be various Orders. Furt…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 96 (Migne)
unum corpus est, quod resurgere dicitur in judicio; licet enim sint multa membra, sed unum corpus» (I Cor. XII, 12) (Orig., hom. 7 in Levit.) . [Note: [Col. 0489C] Perperam ex hoc loco colliget aliquis Origenem, et cum eo Julianum nostrum, in ea fusise sententia, quae, licet vete…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 104 (Migne)
eri, et omnes uno Spiritu potati sumus. Nam et corpus [Col. 0063C] non est unum membrum, sed multa (I Cor. XII, 3-14). Ecce Apostolus evidenter ostendit quomodo credantur Christus et Ecclesia una persona; videlicet, quia uno Spiritu potati, in uno Spiritu baptizati, unum corpus…
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