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BODY in OT represents various Heb. words, especially that for ‘flesh.’ In Exo_24:10 it means, by a common idiom, ‘the framework of heaven’; there is no personification. In NT, though the body may be the seat of sin and death (Rom_6:6; Rom_7:24), it is never treated with contempt (Rom_12:1, 1Co_6:13; 1Co_6:19); Php_3:21 is a well-known mistranslation. Accordingly it could be used metaphorically of the Church, Christ being sometimes the Head, sometimes the Body itself.
C. W. Emmet.