Originally Posted by Digging4Truth

Well... in the 2 verses which make this statement the "anointed" being spoken of is corporate Israel.

Not the Priests, not the Levites, not the blacksmiths, not the carpenters... Israel... as a whole.

It would seem that if one were going to take this verse and superglue it onto Christianity then they would do well to keep it in the same context.

That would then be referring to the corporate church. The church... as a whole... his anointed.

To use simply in reference to ministry etc would also tend to carry a conotation that the rest of the body is UNanointed.

And the term body brings to mind that the church is one body with one head. Either the body is anointed or the body is not anointed. Christ is the anointed one.... the head of the body... when the head is anointed it runs down onto the body.

There aren't certain portions of the body which are anointed while others are not.

All of this plays right back into the original usage... speaking of the corporate body of believers.