From Him the whole body, fitted and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love through the work of each individual part.
(Col 2:19). fitly joined together--"being fitly framed together," as in Eph 2:21; all the parts being in their proper position, and in mutual relation. compacted--implying firm consolidation. by that which every joint supplieth--Greek, "by means of every joint of the supply"; joined with "maketh increase of the body," not with "compacted." "By every ministering (supplying) joint." The joints are the points of union where the...
From whom the whole body fitly joined gether,.... By which is meant, the church; see Eph 1:23 sometimes it designs all the elect of God in heaven and in earth, but here the church militant, which only can admit of an increase; this body is from Christ, as an head, and the phrase denotes the rise and origin of the church from Christ, her dependence...
Verse 16. From whom the whole body. The church, compared with the human body. The idea is, that as the head in the human frame conveys vital influences, rigour, motion, etc., to every part of the body, so Christ is the source of life, and rigour, and energy, and increase, to the church. The sense is, "The whole human body is admirably arranged for growth and rigour.