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all have been made to drink one Spirit. [ Omitting sit;, we have the true reading,1 Not. crit.], John vii. 37, etc. Hence also the unity of the body is inferred. I do not think however, that there is any direct allusion here to the Lord’s Supper, Mark x. 38, note.
14. Ka /' yap, for even) This protasis concerning the body extends to ver. 26 : and is so adjusted, that the apodosis, ver. 27, is summarily added.
15. ’Eau, if) The more ignoble members ought not to be vilified by themselves, ver. 15, 16, nor can they be neglected by the more noble, ver. 21, 22. — mug, the foot) The foot is elegantly intro- duced speaking of the hand, the ear, speaking of the eye, the part speaking of the part that most resembles itself. For so among men, every one usually compares himself with those, to whom in gifts he bears the greatest resemblance, rather than with those, who are far superior, or far inferior. Thomas Aquinas says : u Men devoted to active life are distinguished by the members, that serve the purposes of motion ; those who are devoted to a contemplative life are distinguished by the members that serve the purposes of the intellectual powers.” He is there- fore of opinion, that the feet are kept in subjection ; that the hands occupy a more dignified position ; that the eyes are the teachers ; that the ears are the learners. — oux sigi sx, I am not of) supply, therefore, from the following clause.
15, 16. Oil atapu rouro oux sari v ex rou au^urog) in interroga- tion expects a negative answer, as ver. 29, w ardvreg dnoaroXoi ; [are all apostles, surely not 1] but oux interrogative affirms, as ch. xiv. 23, oux Ipouaiv ; [will they not say ?] Therefore the ques- tion, whereby some read [as Engl. Vers, etc.], ou ntapd rouro oux sanv ex rou augur og ; is it not therefore of the body ? perverts the sense [Beng. reads it without interrogation ]. Ou rrapu rouro oux possesses a double, not a simple power of negation, as Acts iv. 20, ou duvdgsOa 'kcckslv, 2 Thess. iii. 9, ouy^ on oux syogev s^oualav [not that we have not power]. If the foot should say, because I am not the hand, I am not of the body : this saying of the foot is
1 The eig is omitted by BCD corrected later, G; Uunum spiritum ( others , uno spiritu) potati sumus” in the oldest MS. (Ainiat.) of Yulg. fg Syr. Memph. Rec. Text has eig with later uncial MSS. A has sv capo, ioyev. — Ed.
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