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|txtha=μελους, τό (from Homer down), a [[member]], [[limb]]: [[properly]], a [[member]] of the [[human]] [[body]], τά μελα [[τοῦ]] σώματος, μου, [[σου]], [[ἡμῶν]], [[ὑμῶν]], [[πόρνης]] [[μέλη]] is said of bodies given up to [[criminal]] [[intercourse]], [[because]] [[they]] are as it were members belonging to the [[harlot]]'s [[body]], [[μέλη]] — [[now]] [[one]] of [[another]], [[ἀλλήλων]]: Clement of [[Rome]], 1 Corinthians 46,7 [ET] (cf. Fritzsche, Commentary on Romans iii., p. 45) — [[now]] of the mystical [[body]], i. e. the [[church]]: WH marginal [[reading]]); τά σώματα of Christians are called [[μέλη]], of Christ, [[because]] the [[body]] is the [[abode]] of the [[spirit]] of Christ and is [[consecrated]] to Christ's [[service]], 1 Corinthians 6:15.