“"If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?" Thus, because, having fallen upon the difference of the members, and having mentioned feet, and hands, and eyes, and ears, he led them to the consideration of their own inferiority and superiority: see how agai…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — Homily on 1 Corinthians 30
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17If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
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15If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
16And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
— 1 Corinthians 12:17 —
18But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
19And if they were all one member, where were the body?