The answer
The Church is the body of Christ, and it lives because of Him just as the natural body lives because of the soul.1053 The believer, belonging to it, is a member of this body. Origen says, “The holy Scriptures declare the body of Christ, animated by the Son of God to be the whole Church of God, and the members of this body — considered as a whole — to consist of those who are believers; since, as a soul vivifies and moves the body, which of itself has not the natural power of motion like a living being, so the Word, arousing and moving the whole body, the Church, to befitting action, awakens, moreover, each individual member belonging to the Church, so that they do nothing apart from the Word.”1054
Fr. Tadros Yacoub Malaty
Notes
1053 Origen, Against Celsus 6.48 (ANF 4:596); Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew 14.17 (ANF 4:506).
1054 Origen, Against Celsus 6.48 (ANF 4:596).