1 Coríntios 12
George MacDonald · Citado em PreceptAustin
1 Coríntios 12
MacDonald points out that "When we see that diversity is essential to a normal, healthy body, it will save us from two dangers—from belittling ourselves (vv. 15–20) and from belittling others (vv. 21–25). If the foot says, "Because I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body (soma)," it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body (soma). - Paul presents a hypothetical situation where a foot can speak and because it is just a simple foot and not a useful hand, it feels it has no connection with the body. Paul immediately counters that just because it is a foot, indeed a foot with a "low self image" so to speak, that does not mean it does not belong to the body. Here Paul refutes the self-deprecation of believers who viewed themselves as less useful. He says "Not true!" THOUGHT - The foot here speaking self-deprecatingly belies the importance of the foot, especially the toe. How many gifted football players have been side-lined by the little injury called "turf toe!" Is there a believer with a less showy gift in your body who is sidelined by "turf toe? If so, the spiritual progress of the entire Body will be hindered! Staton - A foot that compared itself to a hand would surely have an inferiority complex (1 Corinthians 12:15). And why not? We do much for our hands but very little for our feet in the area of cosmetics. (1 Corinthians)
1 Coríntios 12
MacDonald - The ear shouldn’t try to become a dropout because it is not an eye. We take our ears for granted till deafness overtakes us. Then we realize what a tremendously useful function they perform. (ED: As I have sadly begun to find out at age 75!) (Believer's Bible Commentary) Staton - An ear that compares itself to an eye also has an inferiority complex.... While we would not want members of our physical body to feel inferior to other members and then to begin to cop out on function, so Christ does not want members of His body, the church, to do that either. We can have a functioning body precisely because we have different parts of the body that have different kinds of functions. And one part needs the other parts. (1 Corinthians)
1 Coríntios 12
MacDonald has a somewhat comical comment - If the whole body were an eye, you would have a deaf oddity fit only for a circus sideshow. Or if the body had only ears, it wouldn’t have a nose to detect when the gas was escaping and soon wouldn’t even be able to hear because it would be unconscious or dead. The point that Paul is driving at is that if the body were all tongue, it would be a freak, and a monstrosity. And yet the Corinthians were so overemphasizing the gift of tongues that they were, in effect, creating a local fellowship that would be all tongue. It could talk, but that was all it could do! (Believer's Bible Commentary) 1 Corinthians 12:18 But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body, just as He desired. hath: 1Co 12:24,28 as it: 1Co 12:11 3:5 15:38 Ps 110:3 135:6 Isa 46:10 Jon 1:14 Lu 10:21 12:32 Ro 12:3 Eph 1:5,9 Rev 4:11 1 Corinthians 12 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE MEMBERS But now - Term of contrast. God has placed the members (melos), each one of them, in the body (soma), just as He desired - Paul is still using the body to illustrate his point about the various parts of the body and their seeming greater or lesser value. He says the body is God's sovereign design and as the Master Architect He placed each part of the body exactly were He wanted. Explore the Bible Commentary – Again Paul stressed God's sovereignty in placing the parts … in the body. It was His choice to assign hands, feet, ears, and eyes to their respective places and purposes. On the surface this verse refers to the literal human body: God puts the parts of the human body just where He wants. At a deeper level, however, is a reference to the spiritual body of Christ: God puts the gifts of the Spirit just where He desires in the congregation. To deny the importance of certain gifts is really to question God's wisdom in distributing the spiritual gifts. (1, 2 Corinthians Summer 2010). Pulpit Commentary on just as He desired - Not arbitrarily, but in furtherance of one wise and beneficent design, so that each may be honoured and indispensable, and therefore contented in its own sphere.
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MacDonald - Some members of the body are attractive while others are not so elegant. We compensate by putting clothes over those that are not so beautiful. Thus there is a certain mutual care among the members, minimizing the differences. NIV Study Bible - Sometimes what we regard as not very important is, in fact, very important indeed. This is true for some of our less visible body parts and is true for some members of the church who have less visible gifts. Pulpit Commentary - The shelter and ornament of clothing are used to cover those parts of the body which are conventionally regarded as the least seemly. The whole of this illustration is meant to show that rich and poor, great and small, high and low, gifted and ungifted, have all their own separate and indispensable functions, and no class of Christians can wisely disparage or forego the aid derived from other and different classes. The unity of the members in one body corresponds to "the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace" which should prevail in the Church. Less honorable (820)(atimos from a= negates thus without + time = value, honor) means literally without honor, unhonored, dishonored, despised , of low character or reputation, less respectable, more insignificant (1Cor 12.23) BDAG - pert. to being considered relatively unimportant, insignificant of things that do not elicit special admiration or attention, comparatively held in less esteem 1 Cor 12:23 (of parts of the body also Aristot., Part. An. 3, 672b, 21 ‘more esteemed … less esteemed’, a distinction made in terms of dependency, lower members being at the service of upper ones.") Bestow (4060)(peritithemi from peri = around + tithemi = place, put) literally means to place something on or around (cf Mt 21:33; Lxx Ru 3:3 = "put on your....") and was used of a scarlet robe put on Jesus (Mt 27:28). So in this context it suggests the idea of clothing the body in general. As