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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
Now what is this one body? The faithful throughout the whole world, both which are, and which have been, and which shall be. And again, they that before Christ's coming pleased God, are "one body." How so? Because they also knew Christ. Whence does this appear? …
Theophylact of Ohrid
Paul seeks not simply love, but a love that makes all one body, through complete union with one another, so that, like members of a body, they would suffer together and rejoice together with one another. "And one spirit." He said this beautifully, showing that, having become one body, they will also be one spirit, or else that it is possible to be one body but not one spirit (just as if someone were in friendship with heretics but did not follow their teaching). …
Ignatius of Antioch
The more, therefore, you see the bishop silent, the more do you reverence him. For we ought to receive every one whom the Master of the house sends to be over His household, as we would do Him that sent him. It is manifest, therefore, that we should look upon the bishop even as we would look upon the Lord Himself, standing, as he does, before the Lord. …
Western Saints
Jerome
If the Father's house has many mansions, how are we to say that we are called to one hope? One reply is that the one hope of the calling is the kingdom of God. It is as though we were to speak of the one house of God or say that in one house are many mansions. … Or again, this subtler meaning may be implied: at the end and consummation of all things everything is to be restored to its original condition, when we are all made one body and formed anew into a perfect man.
Thomas Aquinas
Now in man there is a twofold unity. The first is the ordered structure of the organs among themselves, the second is the union of the body and the soul constituting what neither are separately. Because the Apostle speaks of the Church's unity after the fashion of the unity found in man, he adds one body as if to say: Be united in the bond of peace that you may be one body—this regards the first type of unity—all the faithful should be ordered among themselves as members making up a single body. …
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