“If everyone in the church were equal, there would be no body, because a body is governed according to the difference in the functions of its members.”
Ambrosiaster, 4th c. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
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19And if they were all one member, where were the body?
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17If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
18But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
— 1 Corinthians 12:19 —
20But now are they many members, yet but one body.
21And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.