Tuesday, November 9, 2021

A New Translation of 1 Corinthians 12:27

Ὑμεῖς δέ ἐστε σῶμα Χριστοῦ καὶ μέλη ἐκ μέρους (Hymeis de este sōma Christou kai melē ek merous, 1 Cor 12:27). 

My new translation: "Now you are the Christic body and parts of each other." Indeed, I translated 1 Cor 12:12-27 again and understood the text better because of that. 

I intended the Greek noun melos to be translated as a part, not as a member so that readers would not equate it with a social member. We should not forget that the source domain of Paul's body metaphor is the human body.