Teks -- 1 Corinthians 12:24 (NET)

12:24 but our presentable members do not need need this. Instead, God has blended together the body, giving greater honor to the lesser member,

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Robertson: 1Co 12:24 - Tempered the body together

Tempered the body together ( sunekerasen to sōma ).

First aorist active indicative of sunkerannumi , to mix together, old word, but in N.T. only here and Heb 4:2. Plato used this very word of the way God compounded (sunekerasato ) the various elements of the body in creating soul and body. Paul rejects the idea of the later Gnostics that matter is evil and the physical organs degrading. He gives a noble picture of the body with its wonderful organs planned to be the temple of God’ s Spirit (1Co 6:19) in opposition to the Epicurean sensualists in Corinth.

Robertson: 1Co 12:24 - To that part which lacked

To that part which lacked ( tōi husteroumenōi ).

It is a true instinct that gives superior honour to the unseen organs of life.

Vincent: 1Co 12:24 - Tempered together

Tempered together ( συνέκρασεν )

Only here and Heb 4:2. Lit., mixed together . Here the idea of mutual adjustment is added to that of mingling. Compare Plato on God's creating the soul and body. " He made her out of the following elements, and on this manner. Of the unchangeable and indivisible, and also of the divisible and corporeal He made (ξυνεκεράσατο compounded ) a third sort of intermediate essence, partaking of the same and of the other, or diverse" (see the whole passage, " Timaeus," 35).

Wesley: 1Co 12:24 - Giving more abundant honour to that which lacked

As being cared for and served by the noblest parts.

JFB: 1Co 12:24 - tempered . . . together

On the principle of mutual compensation.

JFB: 1Co 12:24 - to that part which lacked

To the deficient part [ALFORD], (1Co 12:23).

Clarke: 1Co 12:24 - For our comely parts have no need

For our comely parts have no need - It would be easy to go into great detail in giving an anatomical description of the different members and parts to which the apostle refers, but it would not probably answer the end of general edification; and to explain every allusion made by the apostle, would require a minuteness of description which would not be tolerated except in a treatise on the anatomy of the human body. My readers will therefore excuse my entering into this detail.

Calvin: 1Co 12:24 - But God hath tempered the body together

24.But God hath tempered the body together He again repeats, what he had stated once before, (1Co 12:18,) but more explicitly, — that God has appointed this symmetry, and that with a view to the advantage of the whole body, because it cannot otherwise maintain its standing. “For whence comes it, that all the members are of their own accord concerned for the honor of a less comely member, and agree together to conceal its shame? This inclination has been implanted in them by God, because without this adjustment a schism in the body would quickly break out. Hence it appears that the body is not merely shattered, and the order of nature perverted, but the authority of God is openly set at naught, whenever any one assumes more than belongs to him.” ⁷⁶⁰

TSK: 1Co 12:24

Gen 2:25, Gen 3:11

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: 1Co 12:24

God hath, in the wisdom of his providence, so ordered it, that as we have some parts of our body which are judged uncomely, and not for those noble uses that others are; so we have other parts that are, for use, more noble, yet in common repute more ignoble and uncomely: and the same wise God hath so built the body of man, as of both these to make a temperament so as they all concur in the composition of the same body, and more abundant honour in covering and clothing them is given to those parts, that, in the judgment of men, seemed most to lack honour, that their uncomeliness might by some artificial means be taken away.

Haydock: 1Co 12:24

Cicero, in his 1st liber de Off. speaking of the human body, says, Natura quæ formam nostram atque figuram, in qua esset species honesta, eam posuit in promptu; quæ partes autem corporis ad naturæ necessitatem datæ, aspectum essent deformem habituræ atque turpem, eas contexit atque abdidit. (Calmet)

Gill: 1Co 12:24 - For our comely parts have no need // but God hath tempered the body together // having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked

For our comely parts have no need,.... As the face, eyes, nose, lips, cheeks, &c. which stand in no need of an external covering, of any outward ornament: so such as are blessed with the bounties of nature and providence, with the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and are eminent for grace and holiness, and are enabled to walk worthy of their calling, and to have their conversations as become the Gospel of Christ, holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience, these have no need of such a covering, as the former have, to hide and conceal them from the world:

but God hath tempered the body together; he hath composed it in such a forth, constituted it in such an order, mixed and united all its parts in such a manner, as that they are all beneficial to each other; and such is the harmonious contexture of the whole, that it is a most beautiful structure:

having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked; or, as the Syriac version renders it, "which is the least"; and such is the temperament and constitution of the church, having mixed rich and poor persons, of greater and lesser gifts, together, for mutual good.