Ephesians 4:4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you are called in one hope of your calling; The real spiritual Church of the Redeemer is one Body. All the members of that Church partake of the same grace, adhere to the same rule of faith, are washed in the same Blood, are filled with the same hopes, and shall dwell at length in the same blessed inheritance. Heretics and ungodly men may find their way into the Church, but they remain really separated from its "invisible conjunction of charity." There may be variations in what Barrow calls "lesser matters of ceremony and discipline," and yet this essential unity is preserved. (J. Eadie, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;WEB: There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling; |
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