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A Catholic Commentary on Holy Scripture is the result of nine years of work by a group of scholars who believed that biblical learning must be integrated with traditional Christianity if it was to bear any spiritual message or fruit for modern society. Their endeavor was to sum up the results of recent international scholarship, and to put them at the disposal not only of Catholics but also of...

the ‘glorious Church’ which is the Body of Christ. For we are not baptized as isolated individuals. By one baptism we are all baptized into one Body and one Spirit, in which we all go to the Father, all fellow-citizens of the heavenly city, members of the family of God, brethren whose eldest brother is Christ, 1 Cor 12:13; Eph 2:16–19; 4:4 f.; 5:26; cf. Rom 8:29; Gal 3:26 ff. The Christians were taught to realize vividly the unity which they had entered in baptism. St Paul uses it to heal splits