identical with herself.… The church is the body of Christ for the world and for her members, in that she is constituted a community by the verbal and ‘visible’ presence to her of that same body of Christ. The body of Christ is at once this sacramental presence within the church’s assembly, to make that assembly a community, and is the church-community herself for the world and her members.”7 As Peter makes clear later (2:9, 12), Christ creates and indwells this corporate body as his own temple, priesthood,
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