So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
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Ambrosiaster
AD 400
This is what it means to love Christ, that we should encourage one another to live in a way which corresponds to the way in which the body is made perfect in Christ. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.
Why do we divide and tear to pieces the members of Christ and raise up strife against our own body, and why have we reached such a height of madness as to forget that “we are members one of another?” The First Epistle of Clement
Why do we divide and tear in pieces the members of Christ, and raise up strife against our own body, and have reached such a height of madness as to forget that "we are members one of another? "
The bond of our unity cannot be firm unless the bond of charity has tied us together in indivisible solidarity…. It is the connection of the entire body which makes for one health, one beauty. And this connection requires the unanimity of the entire body, but especially it demands harmony among the bishops.
