For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Paul talks about Christ when perhaps he might well have said the church. In doing so, he raises the level of discourse and appeals more and more to the hearers’ sense of awe.