Are all (μη παντες). The μη expects a negative answer with each group.

Are all apostles? etc. These questions imply, with strong emphasis, that it could not be, and ought not to be, that there should be perfec…

Or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. And God h…

By these rhetorical questions, all of which imply “no” for an answer, Paul stresses the principle of divine selectivity. Not all believers function…

He has, in the beginning of the chapter, spoken of gifts; now he begins to discuss offices, and we should carefully observe this …

Are all apostles ? &c.] No, some are prophets, as distinct from apostles; and some are teachers, as distinct from them bo…

Contempt, hatred, envy, and strife are very unnatural in Christians. It is like the members of the same body being without concern for one another …

Having laid out the distinction among spiritual gifts, the Apostle now explains it using the analogy of a natural body. He first presents the analo…