Christ Essential to Christians
Ephesians 1:22
And has put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,


So intimately connected are the head and the body, that one cannot exist without the other. In her freaks, no doubt, Nature does produce strange monsters, which, though deficient, some of this and some of that part, contrive to live; and it is marvellous to see what formidable lesions the body can suffer, of what valuable members it may be maimed, and yet survive. But the loss of the head is the loss of life. Death descends on the knife of the guillotine. A bullet whistles through the parting air, the lightning flashes, the sword of the headsman gleams in the sun, and — there is a corpse! before the eye has winked, the man is dead, stone dead.

(T. Guthrie, D. D.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

WEB: He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,




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