As the body is the fulness

As the body is the fulness

To express our life

So to Christ the Church

His Body

Doth express His life.

E’en as Eve is part of Adam

Taken out of him

So the Church is Christ’s own increase

With Himself within.

As from out the buried kernel

Many grains are formed

As the grains together blended

To a loaf are formed;

So the Church

of many Christians

Christ doth multiply

Him expressing as one Body

God to glorify.

As the branches of the grapevine

Are its outward spread

With it one

abiding

bearing

Clusters in its stead;

So the Church’s many members

Christ’s enlargement are

One with Him in life and living

Spreading Him afar.

Fulness

increase

duplication

His expression full

Growth and spread

continuation

Surplus plentiful

Is the Church to Christ

and thereby

God in Christ may be

Glorified thru His redeemed ones

To eternity.

Thus the Church and Christ together

God’s great mystery

Is the mingling of the Godhead

With humanity.