{Is not one member} (ouk estin hen melos). The point
sounds like a truism, but it is the key to the whole problem of
church life both local and general. Vincent refers to the fable
of the body and the members by Menenius Agrippa (Livy, II, 32),
but it was an old parable. Socrates pointed out how absurd it
would be if feet and hands should work against one another when
God made them to cooperate (Xen., _Mem_. II. iii. 18). Seneca
alludes to it as does Marcus Aurelius and Marcus Antoninus.