obtains its growth, Ef. 4:16, Colossians 2:19 and thus grows up ε ἰ ς μετρον ἡ λικιας
του πληρωματος του Χριστου, Ef. 4:13. The union between Christ and the
church is as close as between vine and branches, bridegroom and bride,
man and wife, cornerstone and building. She can with...
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obtains its growth, Ef. 4:16, Colossians 2:19 and thus grows up ε ἰ ς μετρον ἡ λικιας
του πληρωματος του Χριστου, Ef. 4:13. The union between Christ and the
church is as close as between vine and branches, bridegroom and bride,
man and wife, cornerstone and building. She can with Him be called the
one Christ, 1 Corinthians 12:12. In order to perfect her, He has been exalted at the
Father's right hand and continues His prophetic, priestly, and kingly activity
in heaven.
Just as in the days of the O. T. and of his walk on earth, Christ is also now
still the only prophet and teacher of his church. There is no other master,
Matthew 23:8, 10; there is, alongside, above, or in the place of Christ for the
church, no need of any soothsaying, any oracle, any enthusiasm, any
spiritism, any infallible papacy. For Christ is the wisdom, all the treasures
of wisdom and of knowledge are hidden in Him, 1 Corinthians 1:24, 30, Colossians 2:3;
and it is Christ himself, who by his Word and Spirit instructs his church, in
order that they all, taught of God, would be prophets and would proclaim
the great deeds of God, Numbers 11:29, Jeremiah 31:33, 34, Matthew 11:25-27, John 6:45.
Hebrews 8:10, 11, 1 John 2:20. And thus He also remains, in the state of
exaltation, still active as priest. After He on Golgotha has accomplished his
offering, He, as high priest, not with the blood of goats and calves but with
his own blood, Hebr. 9:12-14, through the tabernacle of his body, 9:11 and